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Brief SKetcHes of Men Who 

are MaKing History in 

tKe SagebrvisK State 



Published by 
BESSIE BEATTY 



WOBCED 



Home Printing Company, Los ANaeuES. Cal. 
1907 




Pledge a health to the hard earned wealth, 

Hail to the men who win — 
And to those who wait at the golden gate 

For the ship that never comes in. 

That unsung horde whose ranks are broad, 

Knights of the pick and pan; 
They toil and sow, and the next who go 

Harvest what they began. 

The sort that stays for the endless days 

In the Never Never Land; 
The golden dream is a vanishing gleam 

Like the phantom lake in the sand 

Till the grind is past, and they set at last 

Out on the last long trail, 
Where the sun has set and beyond it yet — 

Here's to the men who fail! 

—Ruth Comfort Mitchell 






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NEVADA 15 

Newlands, Hon. Francis G '. 24 

Nixon, Hon. George S 27 

Bartlett, Hon. George A 30 

Sparks, Governor John 33 

Dickerson, Hon. D. S 36 

Colcord, Hon. E. K 38 

Adams, Hon. Jewett W 40 

TONOPAH DISTRICT— Tonopah 45 

Butler, Jim 48 

Oddie, T. L 51 

Macdonald, Malcolm 53 

Gillies, Donald B 57 

Schwab, Charles M 61 

Salsberry, John 64 

O'Brien, Judge J. P 66 

Brown, Hugh H 68 

Mushett, L. L 70 

Pittman, Key 72 

Kendall, Zeb 73 

Smith, Bert L 74 

Macdonald, Irving 76 

Moran, William J 78 

Grimes, Charles T 80 

Duvall, Marius 82 

Kussell, Will C 84 

Bell, Thomas Jefferson 86 

McKane, John Y 88 

Kirchen, John 90 

GOLDFIELD DISTRICT— Goldfield 95 

Loftus, J. P 98 

Davis, James R 101 

Lockhart, Thomas G 104 

Wingfield, George 107 

Myers, A. D 110 

Macmillan, J. H 113 

Holleran, George B 116 

Turner, Dr. D. A 118 

Clark, W. H 122 

Patrick, L. L 124 

Detch, Milton M 126 

Weber, Henry 128 

Douglas, J. F 130 

McCormack, J. C 132 

Stimler, Harry C 134 

Higginson, C. B 136 

Codd, A. A 138 

Donnellan, John Tilton 140 

Stone, Walter Corbalev 142 

Parkinson, Webb H 144 








CONTENTS Page 

Boyer, Harry W 146 

Thomas, Evans Whitcomb 148 

Lind,, H. B 150 

Murdock, Charles R 152 

Baxter, Harold 154 

Siebert, Fred 156 

Thayer, Rufus C 158 

Johnson, Gilbert Stanton 160 

Savage, Leslie Loring 162 

Brown, Alden H 164 

MaeMaster, H. D 166 

Whittemore, C. 168 

Sprague, Charles S 170 

Lindsav, J. L 172 

Vahreiikamp, Fred. H 174 

Curtis. Loren B 176 

Ish, Milton C 179 

Turner, Ephrim DeMore 182 

Tinnin, John - -• 185 

BULLFROG DISTRICT— Bullfrog 189 

Montgomerv, E. A 192 

Hoveek. Matt 197 

Busch Brothers •,--■ 200 

Mann, Curtis 203 

Ray, Judge L. O --- 206 

Lindsay, Sam F 208 

Lindsay, J. B 210 

Cadogan, John L 212 

McGarry, Leonard B 214 

Fagan, John L 216 

Murphy, Dan 218 

Mannix, Frank P 220 

McMahon, Harry G 222 

MANHATTAN DISTRICT— Manhattan 225 

Boak, Cada C 229 

Humphrey, John Carl 232 

' Naughton, Frank 234 

Meder, Ross 236 

Raymond. Edward L 238 

ROUND MOUNTAIN DISTRICT — Round Mountain 243 

Stebbins, John F 248 

Bartlett, Henry 250 

Olive, Chester" 252 

Wilson, Thomas 254 

NORTHERN NEVADA— The Old Nevada 259 

Rickey, Col. T. B 263 

Piatt, Samuel 266 

Smith, Oscar J 268 

Ridge, W. R : 271 

Burro, J 274 

Assay 276 










FOREWORD 




EVADA'S most valuable asset is her 
men. 

The land of sand and sagebrush is 

a land of real men. There was just 

as much gold in Nevada's craggy 

brovv^n hills at the beginning of time 

as there is today. It was men she needed — men of the 

pick and pan to wrest from her secret treasure vaults the 

yellow dust for which the world is clamoring; men of 

brain, men of brawn, men of courage, real argonauts. 

Such men she has today. 

Men of Nevada are making history and making it 
faster than the men of any other country or of any 
other era. Sons of her soil and sons of her adoption 
are working together for her good. 

A few years ago the United States was bewailing the 
fate of Nevada and deploring the decrease of her popu- 
lation. Today not only the United States, but the whole 
world is looking on with a marveling eye as she grows. 
Who are the men behind her growth? the world is 
asking. 

"Who's Who in Nevada" is the answer to the question. 
An effort has been made to have the book authentic in 
every particular, and to include in it only the men of 
real achievement; the men who have been tried and who 
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UT of the darkness, bred of a great 
struggle, came a tiny, glittering star — 
the thirty-sixth of the American constel- 
lation ; a silver born star bringing new 
life, new hope and a vast new treasure 
store to refill a nation's depleted coffers. 
"NEVADA" they called it. 

Tiny it was for a little while, and glittering, then shin- 
ing forth with a steady, clear light. 

Came a cloud, a dark lowering cloud, without a trace 
of silver lining. Obscured the star until it barely shone 
and sister stars cast pitying glances and whispered of a 
day when it would shine no more. 

Burst the cloud and lo! there was a golden lining — yel- 
low, yellow gold as if Midas had placed on it his magic 
touch. 

"NEVADA" again shouted the sister stars, and all 
bowed down to do her homage. 

Such was the yesterday, the day before and the today 
of Nevada. Born of silver she was and sickened of silver 
almost unto death only to be born again of gold. 

"Gentlemen, when you wish to resume specie payment, 
the way to do it is to resume." It was Nevada that made 
that famous sentence of President Grant's possible. It was 
Nevada that placed in the hands of the union the money 
which put the country on a substantial financial footing 
when war had ravaged and desolated her. 

An elevated plateau or sink lying between the Sierra 
Nevadas and the Rocky mountains — a vast area of unin- 
habited, barren land stretching 300 miles north and south 
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it sixty years ago. Like the valley of the shadow of 
death, it was to the '49ers who hurried through on their 
way to California — one of the horrors that must be en- 
dured in order to reach the promised land. 

Men paused within her domain only long enough to get 
water ; and many perished by the way. None dreamed of 
the wealth of her hidden treasure caves and none waited 
long enough to ask of ^lother Nature the reason for all 
those hills and valleys. 

As long ago as 1775 Father Francisco Garcis, a Fran- 
ciscan monk who was one of the little band in search of 
California, wandered away from his brothers and trav- 
eled in what is now Nevada. As far as is known he was 
the first white man to ever set foot on Nevada soil. 

Next to come to Nevada were men of a very different 
faith. A small company of them was sent out by the 
Mormon church and they settled in the Carson valley 
and named the town Genoa. 

Genoa, the Mormon settlement, was the beginning of 
Nevada. Quietly and with little thought of worldly 
things, they lived there until the discovery of mineral 
wealth brought a horde of gentile fortune seekers into the 
country and the mother church called her children home. 

The world never suspected then that vvithin half a 
dozen years the union would be acknowledging another 
.state out on the western frontier. 

In the mountains east of Carson Valley, where now Vir- 
ginia City stands, silver was discovered in 1859. That 
was the beginning of her first glorious mining era — an 
era that will never be forgotten as long as men mine. 

The story of the Comstock would fill volumes. The 
foundations of Nevada were laid upon that lode. Silver 
was the crv then and word of its discovery traveled upon 




die winds. Telegraph lines and trains were unknown to 
the west, but they were unnecessary. The prospector 
passed the word to a fellow prospector on his way to Cali- 
fornia, and California mining fields were deserted for the 
new El Dorado. The man going across the plains into 
the East carried the word in that direction. Roads were 
built across the mountains. ]\len flocked from every quar- 
ter and began piercing into the mountains, ripping them, 
opening and wresting from them, their treasure store. A 
town was built and they called it Virginia City. Another 
one was built and it was Gold Hill. Business houses were 
opened, saloons and gambling halls lined the main streets, 
newspapers were published ; soon a train came winding 
its way up the valley and into the heart of the mining 
camp. Civilization had arrived. It was a civilization such 
as had never been seen before and will never be seen again. 
Dav and night men worked and schemed and fought and 
died and still the mines poured out wealth. Millionaires 
and bank presidents, statesmen and railroad kings were 
made. Speculation ran riot and the frenzied gambling 
spirit seized all. Four stock exchanges were operated in 
A'irginia Citv and hundreds of thousands of dollars 
changed hands in a day. The wildcat was more numerous 
and more menacing than it has ever been since. Every 
booster saw a hundred Comstocks where there was but 
one. The stock market rose and tumbled and rose and fell 
again. Hard times came and discontent and distrust 
seized the people. The Comstock days were over, said 
the wise, but the Comstock days had only begun. 

After the depression came greater activity than ever, 
and again and again when the world thought the Com- 
stock had outlived its usefulness the good old mining dis- 
trict proved the half its story had not been written. Even 





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today when the brick buildings which were once the scene 
of busy, bustUng life, are crumbling ruins, when the shakes 
are falling off the roofs, the mines are being worked and 
with the promise of new wealth. Whether or not the 
Comstock has a future as well as a great past remains to 
be proved. It may be that the Comstock will again have 
a wondrous tale to tell. The world's greatest geologists 
and engineers have been giving the Comstock their at- 
tention and with the improved methods for draining the 
mines and for deep mining at reduced expense, it may be 
that more millionaires will be made in Virginia City. 

If the Comstock never again becomes a producer the 
world is richer $680,000,000 from her output. She built 
the foundations of old San Francisco. She connected the 
old world and the new with cables. She spanned the con- 
tinents with railroads — in short, she made the whole 
world richer while she grew poorer. When the Comstock 
days were over and the books were balanced there was 
little money to the credit of Nevada. The gold which 
came out of her mineral treasuries went to other places 
and with it went the men she had made millionaires. Her 
population, which reached the high water mark of 160,000 
between 1863 and 1865 dwindled to 40,000 in the early 
nineties. The state became little more than a cattle camp 
as compared with its former glory. 

It was while the mining excitement was at its height 
that Nevada, the state, came into being. In the winter of 
i860 and 1861 Nevada was organized as a territory by an 
act of Congress and James W. Nye of New York was 
appointed Governor. The first territorial legislature met 
at Carson, November, 1861, and in July, .1864, seventeen 
delegates met to frame a state constitution. Laughed at 
because they were trying to do the impossible, they went 





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to work and day and night they kept at it. They met in 
an empty court room, took a collection to buy candles and 
there they kindled a flame that will never die. That little 
band of big men espousing an unpopular cause stirred the 
heart of an untamed country until theirs became the only 
cause and every man was for statehood and the Union. In 
September of that year the constitution was adopted at a 
time of general financial depression, the thirty-sixth star 
in the American constellation began to shine. The ad- 
mission of Nevada with its population two to one for Lin- 
coln, gave the president the kind of backing that was 
needed at that time and the two additional senators gave 
the Union a safe majority. 

Nevada coin was poured into the treasury and the 
greenback was restored to its former value. In a wilder- 
ness was built an empire. 

The Carson City of today has not forgotten that other 
day, nearly half a century ago. Many of the most illus- 
trious of the history makers have gone to the silent city 
and others are living quietly in the past. They do not 
know much of this new Nevada nor do they care much. 

The Carson City of today is as somnolent as Rip A'an 
Winkle's Sleepy Hollow. Once every two years it awakes 
and then there is life for a brief season. 

A wit who passed through the capital in the middle of 
a midsummer day stopped long enough to look up at the 
beautiful trees which line the main street, listened to the 
birds sing and passed on again. He dubbed it the town 
of time and titles — the city of the unburied dead. It is 
possible the 4,000 inhabitants of Carson might resent the 
wit's remark, or perhaps they would only smile indulg- 
ently and think of the past. 

A beautiful spot is this capital with its fine buildings 








loomino^ above stately trees. Here is the United States 
mint built during the Comstock days, but now used only 
as an assay office. Here also is the finest law library west 
of the Rockies. The educational affairs of the state are 
administered from here and Nevada has not been neglect- 
ful of the cause of education. The school fund is the 
largest per capita of any state in the union. As a resi- 
dence town, Carson City has not a superior in the state. 
It was named after the famous scout and frontiersman, 
Kit Carson. 

With the demonitization of silver bringing the great 
cloud upon Nevada, Carson and the other cities and towns 
of the North suffered much, but the prosperity which has 
come in the last four, five or six years has put new life 
and new impetus into even the most remote sections. 

All of the old camps — for the Comstock can not claim 
all of Nevada's past glory — have benefitted by this new 
change in the state's affairs. 

Austin, the bonanza camp of i860 which added $62,- 
000.000 to Nevada's mineral output, has taken new life 
since the discovery of the southern camps. Pioche, the 
discovery of 1865, with $80,000,000 to her credit ; Eureka, 
discovered one year later and giving to the world 
$44,000,000; Jefferson Canyon, Tuscarora. Mountain City, 
Candelaria and Ely, all of which produced from $20,000,- 
000 to $40.000,000 — these practically abandoned with the 
demonitization of silver, are now being worked actively. 

The cloud has passed. The golden lining is spread that 
all may see. 

THE NEW NEVADA IS HERE. 
It is a brighter, better Nevada than anv the world has 
yet seen. The Comstock was first, and it will never be 




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duction Goldfield and Tonopah are addiiii^ each year thirty 
milHon dollars to this aggregate. 

And the end is far distant. For years upon years must 
the State continue her golden outpouring, giving freely of 
her wealth to the world's depleted treasuries, makinj^ name 
and fame for this empire of the West, and taking as her 
right the praise and homage bestowed upon Croesus" store- 
house. Nevada. 



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HON. FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS 




HE future historian who does justice to 
the real benefactors of the West — to 
those who have done most in thought 
and action, must place Senator Francis 
G. Newlands in the first rank. 

Why ? Not for one reason or two rea- 
sons or three reasons, but for any number of reasons. 
First, because the senior senator from Nevada is the 
author of the National Reclamation Act which is making 
the desert blossom as the rose ; the act which committed 
the government to the policy of paternalism and made 
federal moneys available for private enterprise. 

It was the Nevada Senator, who, when private capital 
found it impossible to handle the problems of irrigation, 
conceived the idea of having the government undertake 
the work of reclaiming the arid lands of the West. It was 
the Nevada Senator who conceived the idea of building 
reservoirs to conserve the flood waters for irrigation in 
dry seasons. 

It was in compliment to the Nevada Senator that the 
first four million dollars of government money expended 
under this act went to Nevada. 

The act was one of the most important ever passed by 
Congress. It will mean to Nevada, permanent prosperity ; 
to the West, continued progress ; to the entire country, 
freedom from the congested life of the cities. 

The master mind of a thinking man was necessary to 
conceive this gigantic plan and other master minds were 
quick to grasp the magnitude of it and to assist in making 
it one of the most important issues of the day. 

Not a Republican and yet not essentially a Democrat, is 
Senator Newlands. He is an American. ]\Ien and meas- 



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ures claim his attention and party prejudice is not allowed 
to enter where the best welfare of the greatest number 
is at stake. 

He is a true-hearted, big man, a wise friend of the peo- 
ple, a fine speaker and a tactful statesman. A self-made 
man is Francis G. Newlands. He was born in Natchez, 
Mississippi, and wdien little more than a boy developed a 
taste for affairs of state. He secured an appointment as 
clerk in Washington and worked his way through Co- 
lumbia Law School, Washington, D. C. He also attended 
Yale for a time, but was called from school before he was 
able to receive his degree. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1870 and began practice of his profession in San Fran- 
cisco. Possessed with an analytical mind, a fearless na- 
ture and the gift of oratory, it was not long until he at- 
tained a high place in legal circles. In 1889 he moved 
to Nevada and soon afterward became prominent in the 
politics of the state. Three years later he was made candi- 
date of the Silver party for Congress and served four 
terms. While in the lower house he was active as a com- 
mitteeman and he occupied a prominent place on the cur- 
rency committee, the committee on ways and means and 
the committee on foreign affairs. It was in 1902 that he 
was elected to the Senate and four years later was again 
returned to Washington for further service to his state 
and his country. 

He has a beautiful home in Reno overlooking the 
Truckee river and a charming wife who is a leader in 
social life in Nevada and a welcome addition to any 
Washington circle. She was formerly Miss Edith McCal- 
lister, daughter of Hall McCallister of San Francisco. His 
first wife, who died in 1880, was Miss Clara Adelaide 
Sharon, a daughter of former United State Senator 
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forgotten, but no more will Tonopah and Goldfield and 
Bullfrog and the others of the Nevada gold camps. 

It is to these camps that Nevada looks for her future. 
Twenty years ago, even ten years ago, Nevada had the 
pity of her sister states. Today she can have nothing but 
admiration and the homage which is her due. 

The silver state has become the gold state and a goodly 
abundance of copper has been added to make her measure 
of wealth pressed down and brimming over. 

When Jim Butler discovered Tonopah he created a new 
state and the men who came after him and made from his 
small beginning a gigantic continuation, deserve no less 
credit. 

In a graveyard of dead volcanos a mining world is 
being built. The wilderness of lava which has been 
shunned by all men for so many years is a magnet which 
is drawing humanity from east and west, from north and 
south. Ground which has been passed over as barren of 
valuable ore by some of the noted minerologists has been 
proved to contain fabulous riches. Indications and stand- 
ards which have served the rest of the mineral world well 
enough are of no use in this new mineral belt. 

Less than seven years ago the name of Tonopah was 
put upon the map. Three years later came Goldfield, dis- 
covered by prospectors from Tonopah, and next in suc- 
cession came Bullfrog, [Manhattan and Round Alountain 
with a dozen others of more or less prominence. 

First a stray tent or two, then the first load of lumber 
hauled into camp across the desert and a frame dwelling 
as the result and in little more time than it would take 
a fairy to wave a wand, a camp, a town, and then a city 
has been built. The miner's candle is exchanged for elec- 
tric light, the sheet iron cook stove for an electric range, 






the tent for an elaborate home or office, the burro for an 
automobile, and the freighting wagon for a locomotive. 
To the man who has not seen the marvels of the trans- 
formation of the Nevada desert must seem as a fairy 
tale. 

The last edition of the days of '49 is being written and 
soon the death knell of the frontier must be sounded. The 
picturesque is making- way for the practical. The piercing 
blast of the locomotive is penetrating to parts that have 
heretofore known no sound other than the cry of the coyote 
or the bray of the desert canary toiling over the sand with 
the prospector's pack upon his back. 

Men are fighting the fight with the elements and it is a 
glorious fight. Southern Nevada must now win on its 
merits. 

Goldfield and Tonopah have passed through their wild- 
cat speculative stage when fortunes were made and lost 
on paper, when more mining was done in other people's 
pockets than in the ground. The stock market will go up 
and down and good times and hard times may vie with 
each other for first place, but the mills of the miner will 
grind on slowly but surely. Whether the stock market is 
up or down, the mines will be turning out their wealth to 
enrich the world. The prospector is still plodding over 
the hills with his pick and his pan. He knows little of 
the condition of the market and cares less. He is looking 
for gold — virgin gold. He is unheard of until he finds 
the pay streak and then the path that only he and his burro 
have trod is followed by a horde of gold-mad men. 

The prospect of yesterday is the mine of today. Before 
the world ever heard of Southern Nevada, the sage brush 
state had given in precious metals one billion four hundred 
and forty-two million dollars. At the present rate of pro- 



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HON. GEORGE S. NIXON 

HE practice, which has become a habit, 
of indicating pubHc men as examples 
worthy of emulation by all youths has 
been a source of annoyance to many a 
lad, and who has not been wearied by 
"keep-on, maybe-you'11-be-president" 
admonitions? "Who's Who" has no desire to give such 
advice to the young men of Nevada, and consequently 
will merely outline the steps by which George Xixon rose 
from the position of an under-paid telegrapher to that of 
United States Senator from Nevada, without attempting 
to point a moral. 

George S. Nixon was born in Newcastle, Placer County, 
California, April 2, 1862. His parents had crossed the 
plains to the Pacific Coast eleven years before. In New- 
castle the youthful Nixon* learned telegraphy, inspired 
probably by that unaccountable desire that possesses 
nearlv every bov when he first hears the mysteries of the 
]\Iorse Code. He went to Humboldt. Nevada, as an 
employe of the Southern Pacific. He was the agent. His 
duties consisted in part of sweeping out, keeping up the 
fires, answering questions, sending messages, looking 
after freight, keeping cattle ofif the track, and incidentally 
selling tickets to those who had the price and desire to 
travel beyond the confines of Humboldt. 

In 1883 he went to Belleville, on the Carson and Colo- 
rado Railroad, where he acted as agent. His duties were 
similar to those he had performed at Humboldt, with the 
addition, perhaps, of a few other tasks. After a year 
passed in Belleville, the embryonic Senator accepted — 
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few opportunities for material advancement at Belleville, 
he probably "seized it eagerly" — a position in the First 
National Bank at Reno, the institution that is now the 
Washoe County Bank. Three years later Mr. Nixon 
went to Winnemucca, where he organized the First Na- 
tional Bank of Winnemucca. He served as cashier of the 
bank for fifteen years, then became its president. 

Senator Nixon's first experience in law-making bodies 
came in 1891, when he was elected to the Legislature, and 
his rise in the councils of the Republican party was even 
more rapid than in the business world. This reached the 
pinnacle when he was chosen to represent Nevada in the 
United States Senate. 

When a boy his dream was that some day he might 
become the owner of a bank. Since that time he has made 
a whole chain of banks, become United States Senator, 
entered the lists of the mining men of Nevada in the 
foremost rank and made for himself a name which is 
known at home and abroad. His connection with the 
great Goldfield Consolidated, as its president, is well 
known, for the history of most of the greatest mines of 
Goldfield, has been written in many languages and read 
in many climes. 

There is not a camp in Nevada in which the Senator has 
no interests. He built the Nixon Block in Goldfield at a 
time when few men would have had the courage to put 
a large sum of money into such an enterprise. His faith 
in the camp has been repaid many fold. Senator Nixon 
is a genial man with the faculty of seeing the humorous 
side of things, and is the life of any company he honors ; 
energetic, ambitious and optimistic, he succeeds in impart- 
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HON. GEORGE A. BARTLETT 

HE Congressman from Nevada is a Ne- 
vadan every inch. When Nevada cast 
off her territorial raiment and assumed 
the dignity of statehood it was decreed 
that one man should represent her in 
the Halls of Congress. To find the 
man better fitted to uphold her honor than George A. 
Bartlett would be difficult. 

Without his knowledge or consent. George Bartlett was 
born in San Francisco. But a few weeks afterward, he 
was taken to Eureka. Nevada, in those days a hustlinp; 
mining camp. Here his parents had lived for several years 
before his birth. When he was old enough to reason — 
those who ought to know, say that at a remarkably young 
age — he made up his mind that Nevada is the best place 
in the world and that opinion has not changed wnth ad- 
vance in years. To live in Nevada ; to wander forth a 
little ; to gain the viewpoint of the world, and to return to 
Nevada to die is all he asks. 

The George Bartlett of today, whom all his friends 
know as just George, is a man of power — a genius with 
a little more sanity than has the average genius. His 
name is known from one end of the state to the other, 
and in Washington his colleagues are not allowed to for- 
get Nevada. 

As an orator he is without a peer in the state. His 
small body seems charged with dynamic energy, and 
with the velocity of whirlwind, he sweeps obstacles from 
his path. A pair of blue eyes, merry and keen, peer out 
from the base of an expansive forehead. Nature has neg- 
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the Congressman's head, and he, determined to have so 
much hair in spite of everything, allows it to cover his 
neck in the back. 

In the matter of dress he scorns all fashions but his 
own self-adopted and never-changing ones. He says he 
dresses for comfort, and his broad-brimmed sombrero, 
soft collar, and long black string tie, he carries with him 
even to the Capital. 

In his profession, as the senior member of the law 
firm of Bartlett & Thatcher, with ofifices in the Butler 
Building in Tonopah, he occupies a prominent place in 
the first rank. 

Mr. Bartlett's early recollections are all centered around 
Eureka, Nevada, where he spent his boyhood days. He 
went to Georgetown College, and after leaving his alma 
mater, returned to his childhood home, and began prac- 
ticing his profession. From the beginning he was suc- 
cessful, and rapidly he conquered the small world, which 
that mining camp represents. Politics interested him 
early in life, and his first public office was that of district 
attorney. 

In Tonopah he became legal representative for 
Jim Butler in 1901, and since that time has become at- 
torney for the Shoshone Consolidated, the Pittsburg Sil- 
ver Peak Mining Company, the interests of Malcolm 
Macdonald and several other capitalists, and 'is vice- 
president of the First National Bank of Tonopah. 
Mr. Bartlett was one of the first to secure a lease on 
the famous Jumbo in Goldfield, and since then has ac- 
quired interests in Goldfield, Bullfrog, Manhattan, and 
other camps in Southern Nevada. He has recently com- 
pleted a home in Tonopah which is the largest and most 
beautiful residence in the southern part of the State. 




IS EXCELLENCY, the Governor, the 
Honorable John Sparks, is a South- 
erner ; that is, all of him that is not a 
Nevadan. Governor Sparks, who pre- 
sides over the destinies of this ojreat 
state, as campaign orators are wont to 
say, was born in Mississippi, August 30, 1843. Fourteen 
years later, in 1857. his family went to Texas and with 
them went the future governor. The Governor's parents 
were well known in the big state of Texas. His father 
was a pioneer stock raiser and members of his family 
took part in the skirmishes against hostile Indians. This 
gave young John Sparks an advantageous equipment of 
experience, which he was destined to need in his later life. 

At the age of fourteen years he began working for him- 
self. In 1868 he came to Nevada and became interested 
in the cattle business. He bought several ranches and at 
one time owned thousands of head of cattle. He has also 
extensive interests in mining in various parts of the state. 

Governor Sparks is a Democrat, and has been active in 
the party ever since his boyhood. He was elected Governor 
of Nevada first in 1902 by a large majority and was re- 
elected at the last state election. The Governor is and 
has been for years a prominent factor in the development. 
of agriculture and stock raising. 

Governor Sparks is a quiet, kindly man, with a heart 
overflowing with good cheer toward his fellow men. He 
has the southern, or perhaj^s better still, the western, idea 
of hospitality and this, with his many other splendid char- 
acteristics, has endeared him to the people of the state. 

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big ranch along the railroad between Carson and Reno. 

"The Alamo" the ranch is called, and there is probably 
no more beantiiul place in the State. It is situated on 
the old Virginia City Turnpike, and takes its names from 
a fine grove of cottonwood trees standing near the home. 
As a country place there is nothing in the State to com- 
pare with it. The Governor has developed on land that 
was practically barren, everything that tends toward the 
beautiful. He has a herd of elk and buffalo, and he has 
done more than any other man in the West to keep this 
latter animal from becoming extinct. The Governor be- 
lieves that today Nevada is the best live-stock state in the 
Union, and says that the industry is one which will con- 
tinue to grow. 

As a breeder of fancy stock, he is known all over the 
West, and even farther afield. He sent the first Here- 
fords ever shipped to Honolulu into the islands, and his 
stock has even gone abroad, while there is hardly a cor- 
ner in America where stock-raising exists, that the Alamo 
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LIEUT. GOV. D. S. DICKERSON 




EVADA's Lieutenant Governor, D. S. 
Dickerson, is not a mere politician, as 
are many office-holders, but a man who 
has accomplishments to his credit in 
other lines. He is a prominent miner 
and knows more than a little of the 
state's great mineral wealth. Mr. Dickerson was not born 
in Nevada, but he did the best he could and allowed Cali- 
fornia to claim the honor of being his native state. He 
was born in Shasta County, January 25, 1872, the son of 
one of California's pioneer mining men. 

The Lieutenant Governor has mined in California, 
Idaho and Montana, as well as in Nevada. Incidentally, 
being a good Democrat and believing in advancing the in- 
terests of his party, he has been prominently identified 
with politics. Until coming to Nevada he had not held 
office, being content to remain a humble worker in the 
ranks. Mr. Dickerson came to Nevada in 1899 and en- 
gaged in mining in White Pine County. He was elected 
County Clerk in 1902 ; at the next election he was chosen 
County Recorder, and at the last state election he became 
Lieutenant Governor. 

Lieutenant Governor Dickerson is a newspaper man of 
considerable experience. For two years he owned and 
edited the White Pine News at Ely. He sold that publi- 
cation and now owns the Ely Mining Expositor, which 
he founded. He has mining property in other parts of 
the state, but is especially interested in Ely. 

The Lieutenant Governor is a young man, quiet and re- 
served. He does not have a great deal to say, as a rule, 
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EX-GOVERNOR R. K. COLCORD 



HERE lives a man in Nevada who was 
elected Governor on the Republican 
ticket. This may seem astonishino; in 
these days, but it is true nevertheless. 
R. K. Colcord, assayer in charge of the 
United States Mint at Carson City, has 
the honor. In the days before the fusion of the silver 
men and the Democrats the Republicans were in control, 
and it was during that time that Colcord was elected. 
Former Governor Colcord has been a prominent figure 
in this western country. He was born in Maine, April 25, 
1837. He studied engineering in his youth and went to 
California in 1856 to engage in placer mining and mill 
and bridge building. He came to Nevada in 1863 and lo- 
cated on the Comstock in Virginia during the heighth of 
the gold excitement. He remained there for eight years 
building some of the big mills. He was manager of the 
mines and mills at Bodie, just across the line in Califor- 
nia, for seven years and held a similar position for five 
vears in Aurora, the sister town on the Nevada side of 
the state line. 

Governor Colcord has been a leader in the Republican 
party in the state for years. He was elected Governor in 
1891 and served until 1895, when he went back to his 
mining work. He was appointed superintendent of the 
mint in 1898 by President jMcKinley. The mint is now 
conducted as a government assay office 

"I am a miner," says the former Governor, "and I tell 
vou it is the most satisfactory and cheerful calling in the 
world. I will not stop as long as I have a cent. Legiti- 
mate? Why. it is just as legitimate as raising wheat." 







EX GOVERNOR JEWETT ADAMS 



MAN who has had a prominent part in 
the building of the West is former 
Governor of Nevada, Jewett W. Adams. 
He has seen enacted many of the his- 
tory-making incidents of the last half 
centiirv. When he was sixteen vears of 




age he finished his course in the district school of Ver- 
mont, in which state he was born, and started for Califor- 
nia by way of Panama. In 1856 and 1857 he acted as 
clerk for General John C. Fremont in Mariposa Countv, 
Cal. After coming to Nevada Mr. Adams became active 
in politics. He was elected Governor on the Democratic 
ticket in 1872, and served four years. He held office dur- 
ing stirring times, among the events of his term being the 
gold excitement at Gold Hill. 

Retiring to private life. Governor Adams engaged act- 
ively in business. For years he has been a prominent 
stockman and has at all times been ready with advice and 
deeds for the upbuilding of the state. He makes his 
home at Carson City, where he is recouping his fortune 
by conducting a gypsum quarry and mill at ]\Iound House, 
a few miles from Carson. The product of his mill and 
quarry is much in demand and large quantities are being 
shipped to San Francisco to be used in rebuilding that 
city. 

Former Governor Adams' looks belie his seventy-two 
years. His white hair, courtly manner and slight, straight 
figure are well known to all residents of the sagebrush 
state. 





TONOPAH 











TONOPAH 




X illimitable sand waste, broken by 
cruel, jagged hills jutting from a bar- 
ren plain, known to government geog- 
raphers as the Great Southern Nevada 
Desert, and shunned bv everv livine 
thing except an occasional lizard, 
and no more was known of the world'? 
greatest gold-fields ten years ago. 
Another picture, Tonopah. 

Gone the sand waste .gone the horror, and in its place 
a metropolitan, cosmopolitan communit}-. The Southern 
Nevada Desert once called great because of its vastness, 
is now great indeed — great because it is daily increasing 
the wealth of the world ; great because at a single bound 
it has accomplished what other desert countries have not 
done in centuries, but greatest of all because it stands as a 
monument to the combined achievement of men's brains, 
men's courage, men's brawn, and men's money. 

On Alay 19, 1900. Tonopah came into being. It was 
upon that day that Jim Butler broke the samples from 
the Mizpah Ledge which were soon to cause the eyes of 
the mining world to be focused upon Southern Nevada. 

The story of that discovery has been told elsewhere. 
All have heard of Jim Butler's search for a man who 
would assay his samples, of the days of hard labor three 
men endured before they knew the real worth of the new 
field, of the discouragement which met them on every 
hand and later of the mad rush for the new diggings. 

It was from Belmont that Jim Butler traveled on his 
way to Klondyke when he located the Tonopah ground 
and it was to Belmont that he returned to have his sam- 







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pies assayed, thus it was that the first men to hear of 
the new strike were the Behnont men. ]Most of them 
had been ranching', some had been keeping stores and 
others had been prospecting and mining in a small way 
for many years. All went to Tonopah. The camp was 
first a tent, then a house, and later a city of business 
blocks and graded streets, electric lights and telephones. 

Some enterprising citizen decided one day that it would 
be a good thing for Tonopah to become the county seat, 
and the miners proceeded to move it. If the people of 
Belmont objected, it made no difference for there were 
not more than a handful of them left to object, and 
Tonopah went on the principal of "what I want I take." 
The county seat was moved without any "by-your-leave" 
or "may I ?" 

The Belmont men were not long left in sole possession 
of the new land of wealth for the news traveled fast and 
people in all the remote camps of the country heard about 
it. In the cities they heard too, but in the cities people are 
sometimes skeptical and the wise ones assumed a "you- 
have-to-show-us" attitude. Some of them awoke be- 
fore it was too late, and Tonopah became the center of 
a cosmopolitan population, composed of men and women 
with but a single aim. 

Oddie Mountain, which had been a barren hill with not 
a stir of life, became the busiest place in the West. Men 
with leases from the original locaters, dug into the hill, 
cut it and cross-cut it, until it looked like a bee hive. They 
worked early and late, and reaped a golden harvest for 
themselves and for the owners of the ground. 

The name of Mizpah became known the world over, 
and soon Belmont. Tonopah Extension, Montana-Tono- 
pah, Midway, Jim Butler, and many others took their 
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pying a place of more or less importance. Though loca- 
tions have been made and mines have been developed 
since the day of the discovery of the Mizpah, Tonopah 
has never produced anything- greater than this first prop- 
erty. If it is not the greatest silver-gold mine in the 
world today, it will give any other mine a close run for 
honors. From the beginning the mines of Tonopah have 
paid their owners. The first wagon-load of ore shipped 
out of the district brought the money which made further 
development of the mines possible, and since that time 
the production receipts have been enormous. In cash 
dividends Tonopah paid during the year 1906, $2,200,000 
and 121,375 tons of ore were shipped. There is enough 
ore blocked out in the mines today to make them divi- 
dend-payers for many years, even if there is never another 
])ound of gold or silver-bearing rock uncovered. 

^len have thought enough of her future to erect fine 
business blocks and some of the most expensive homes in 
the State are located there. She has in the Tonopah 
Bonanza an up-to-date morning newspaper that would 
be a credit to any city and in the afternoon, the Tonopah 
Sun comes forth to cast its rays into the Tonopah homes, 
while three weeklies help to spread the greatness of 
Tonopah abroad. 

The camp is the center of an ever-growing mining dis- 
trict and supplies Blair and its famous Silver Peak mine, 
which many believe the greatest in the state; ^Manhattan, 
Liberty, and many other camps of im]iortance. 

Tonopah's past has been a rosy one. but not one whit 
less bright is the outlook upon the future which stretches 
before her. In spite of her wonderful stirdes she is even 
now only an infant and none can set limits which will 
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JIM BUTLER 

Ul BUTLER is the father of Tonopah, 
solely, only, and pre-eminently. While 
the parentage of various other camps is 
a mooted question and the hirth of most 
of them is shrouded in mystery, Tono- 
pah is in a class by itself. It's all 
Butler. It takes curiosity to make mines. 
If Little Old Jim Butler, as he is atTectionately called, 
had not had curiosity there might not have been anv To- 
nopah today. When Thomas Jefferson Bell, one of the 
others of the grand old pioneers of Nevada, discovered 
Klondyke, Jim Butler heard of the find and started on a 
trip to the new district. It was on the way that he camped 
over night and awoke the next morning to find Tonopah. 
Curiosity, or force of habit, made him break a few bits of 
rock from some of the outcroppings, and curiosity led him 
to find what was in it. This was on May 19, 1900, and the 
samples were taken off what is now the Buckboard Mine 
on the ]\Iizpah lode. 

With these samples Jim Butler concluded his trip to 
Klondyke. Assayers who saw the rock there thought lit- 
tle of it and threw the samples aside as not worth testing. 
The failure to get his rock assayed seemed to act as a 
stimulus to Jim Butler, and on the return trip he took 
more samples, which were later sent to the assayers by 
T. L. Oddie. In August of that year yir. Butler and his 
wife left for the new diggings and on the twenty-sixth of 
that month made the locations covering the great Mizpah 
ledge. Their location monuments were made of ore taken 
from' the ledge, for there were no stakes within many 
miles. Mrs. Butler named the camp Tonopah. With 




each new assay the locators grew more and more enthusi- 
astic for the gold and silver values became higher. It was 
not long until the barren desert grew to be a hustling min- 
ing camp. From every section of the country came for- 
tune-hunters, all seeking the new El Dorado. And To- 
nopah was made. 

As long as there is a Nevada, as long as the world re- 
members the benefits that have come from her wondrous 
treasure vaults, so long will the name of Jim Butler be 
known and honored. And beside it must be placed in 
every record of the growth of this great southern empire 
the name of Mrs. Belle Butler, his wife. Of all Nevada 
women she is the most honored. Kind-hearted, noble- 
spirited and courageous she went through all the hard- 
ships of the early days without a word of complaint. 

A word about Jim Butler. He is a big-hearted, broad- 
gauge, thoroughly Western type. Of strong character, 
of firm mental fibre, he combines certain carelessnesses 
with strong intellectuality and a really philosophical bent 
of inind. His word poeple are willing to take for 
his bond, and he believes that the word of mouth is as 
bincjing and solemn as is any written contract. He was 
borij in 1855 in El Dorado County, California, and his 
boyhood days were passed among the scenes of the won- 
derful placer diggings. He drifted to Nevada in the days 
when the famous Comstock was still astonishing the 
world, and mined in Austin, Pioche, White Pine, and vari- 
ous other districts. Thirty years of hard knocks were his 
before fortune laid in his path the Mizpah Ledge on that 
memorable May morning. Today he lives on a beautiful 
ranch in Bishop, and every few days his big automobile 
comes chugging into Tonopah. bringing the father for 
another glimpse of the now full-grown child. 



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JOHN SALSBERRY 




HE copper king of the new Nevada min- 
ing country is John Salsberry, and Ube- 
hebc, his mineral empire, will astonish 
the world with its outpourings of 
wealth. They say of Ubehebe, as Queen 
Sheba said of old, "The half was not 
told me." The man who goes into the district is prom- 
ised much, he realizes more. In this district John Sals- 
berry is the leader and the ruling spirit and the time is 
coming when the coffers of himself and his associates 
will be overflowing with the proceeds from kindlv Mother 
Earth. 

John Salsberry is probably as well known as any miner 
in Nevada. He came to Tonopah in May, 1901, from 
Tuolumne County, California, where he was mining on 
the mother lode. He secured an interest in the Belmont, 
one of Tonopah's great properties, and also has had ex- 
tensive holdings on ground adjoining the Montana-Tono 
pah. He was one of the heavy investors and staunch sup- 
porters of the Bullfrog District, assisting in the incor- 
poration of valuable properties. He has operated widely 
throughout the southern part of the State, and his work 
has been carried on in such a business-like, systematic 
way that it has inspired general confidence, his efforts 
being followed closely by a large contingent. His faith 
in Ubehebe has served to stimulate great interest in that 
camp. Impartial investigators who have visited this great 
copper district declare its possibilities arc almost unlim- 
ited. 

The land lies in such a way that the ore can be taken 
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MALCOLM MACDONALD 

F MALCOLM AL^CDONALD had 

done nothing- in his Hfe but install the 
telephone and telegraph system through- 
out Southern Nevada, bringing even the 
remotest camps and mines into instant 
communication with the outside world, 
he would not have lived in vain, and the state would rise 
up and call him blessed. 

At a time when public corporations wnth unlimited 
means were unwilling to spend their money in utilities for 
the development of that part of the desert country, it was 
Alalcolm ]\Iacclonald who rose to the occasion and in the 
face of almost insurmountable obstacles built a system ol 
lines that was a god-send to the people of the community. 
Actuated by a desire to give the outlying camps a service 
that would make it possible for them to exist, he secured 
the necessary capital for telephone and telegraph systems, 
projected and built automobile roads ; and instead of days 
and weeks, minutes and hours separated the integral parts 
of the greatest mining country the world has ever known. 
Malcolm Macdonald is the typical man of affairs, the 
daring organizer and investor, just the sort of man that 
is necessary to the welfare of a state such as Nevada. The 
mining district is his home. His playgrounds in early life 
w^ere the shafts of the Comstock, where his father was a 
leader during the palmy days of the great gold diggings. 
He went to school in California and then betook himself 
to IMontana, where he made a phenomenal record in min- 
ing engineering. He became associated with Joseph 
Harper, one of the noted mining and construction experts 
in the West. Macdonald had supervision of the build- 








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ing of the Big Horn dam system, from which Butte was 
supplied with water and power. The firm had charge of 
other great works in Montana before Mr. INIacdonald de- 
cided to return to Nevada, his native state, being suc- 
ceeded in the partnership with Colonel Harper by his 
brother, Irving Macdonald. 

His career in Nevada has been one of constant activity. 
One of his first tasks was the building of the telephone and 
telegraph systems and the construction of automobile 
roads. He is consulting engineer of the Tonopah Exten- 
sion Mining Company, in which Charles M. Schwab is 
one of the heaviest investors, and is president of the 
Southern Nevada Telephone and Telegraph Company. 
His interests are numerous and varied. He took charge 
of the Montgomery-Shoshone Consolidated Mine and de- 
veloped its millions. He is the associate of many wealthy 
men, and owns properties that promise immense riches. 
Throughout Southern Nevada his hand has been felt, 
always building up, never destroying. 

He is president of the First National Bank of Goldfield, 
and this institution is one of his pet undertakings. When- 
ever there is word of a new strike or new discovery in 
any part of the state, Malcolm Macdonald and his men 
are among the first on the spot. Thus he has acquired 
interests in every quarter. One of the camps in which 
he is concentrating a large part of his energy at present 
is Rosebud, which he believes shows promise of being 
among those which will some day be famous in the his- 
tory of Nevada's gold regions. 

It is said of Malcokii Macdonald that he is the embodi- 
ment of the now somewhat trite motto, "Don't knock but 
boost." He has never been known to speak ill of any 
man. If his opinions are contrary to those of another, he 





states the fact and drops the subject. He is straight- 
forward and open in his manner and in his deahng with 
his fellow men. No man can attain such prominence as 
his and be free from' the attacks of those who seek to de- 
tract from his achievements. But he does not retaliate. 
If he sa3^s nothing- good he says nothing at all. He is 
one of the busiest men in the state and his offices are the 
center from which radiates much of the business impetus 
of the district. Surrounded by associates and employes, 
his time is fully occupied, but he never refuses an audi- 
ence to any one who may seek it. The door of his ofifice 
swings open to admit rich and poor alike and to all he 
is the kindly, courteous man whom Nevada has come to 
associate with what is most progressive in her develop- 
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DONALD B. GILLIES 



HE mining- engineers have been the 
mine makers of Nevada. Upon the 
shoulders of a few has rested the actual 
responsibility of making dividend pay- 
ers out of prospects. Since the begin- 
ning of the gold excitement in Tonopah, 
which means the begilming of Southern Nevada, the vari- 
ous mining fields of the world have been contributmg their 
best in brains and skill to this new El Dorado. Montana 
has sent many of those most active in her mineral zone 
and there is none in Nevada today who is better known 
than Donald B. Gillies. 

He came to Nevada a young man. with a brief but 
brilliant record behind him, and abundance of high hopes 
for the future. Added to this he brought a sound min- 
ino- education, unlimited energy, a long business head 
and a happv disposition. The prominence of his position 
today in the state's activities proves how well this stock 
in trade has served him. Few men have met with so much 

success. 

When the AIontana-Tonopah T\Iining Company was 
casting about for a man to take charge of its property and 
make it the mine it promised and has since proved to be, 
they sent for Don Gillies and made him an offer flatter- 
ing enough to turn the head of a young man less wise. 
As" general manager of this property he paid the first 
dividend to the stockholders a year from the time he first 
took the reins in his hands. He resigned this position 
to accept a similar one with the Tonopah-Extension Min- 
ing Company, and later became its president. His 
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attention of Charles M. Schwab to him and the impres- 
sion Mr. Schwab received of him then was strengthened 
before he had long been in charge of tbe Tonopah Ex- 
tension. Today he has charge of all Mr. Schwab's inter- 
ests in Nevada, which have been growing more extensive 
all the time. 

The purchase of the Montgomery-Shoshone in the Bull- 
frog District was made upon his recommendation, as was 
also the purchase of the Polaris and Crystal groups, 
which later formed the holdings of the Shoshone Con- 
solidated Mines Company. He was instrumental in ef- 
fecting the consolidation of several of the best properties 
in Greenwater, and this camp, he believes, will some day 
be one of the great copper producers of the world. Cop- 
per mining in any country involves the expenditure of 
much money, and it will be necessary to do a large amount 
of work in Greenwater to determine the actual status of 
the district. The consolidation includes the Greenwater 
and Death Valley, the Furnace Creek and the United 
Greenwater companies, the choicest in the district. There 
is no camp in Nevada in which Mr. Gillies is not inter- 
ested, and his personal holdings in most of them are very 
large. It is not as the mining engineer, but as the oper- 
ator that he is most heard of today. 

His interests keep him always on the wing and he is 
here one day and away the next, with his watchful eye 
in every quarter where he or the men who are his asso- 
ciates, have capital invested. 

Personally he is a favorite among his acquaintances. His 
boyhood days were spent in Ontario, Canada, where he 
first saw the light in 1872. His father and his grand- 
father had been miners before him, and it was natural 
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He entered the Michigan College of Mines and graduated 
there with the degrees of B. S. and E. M. His first actual 
field experience was in the employment of the Calumet 
and Hecla Copper Company in Northern ^lichigan, and 
he later became the superintendent of all the mining- 
properties of W. A. Clark in Butte, Montana. ^lany of 
the leading capitalists of the east have inyested money in 
Nevada upon his advice, and his opinion is being contin- 
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CHARLES M. SCHWAB 




OLD begets gold. It takes money to 
make mines. Without the vast amount 
of capital which has been brought into 
Southern Nevada the world's greatest 
proved mining field might today be but 
a prospect. 

Every captain of industry who has invested money in 
mining knows that for every winning card there must be 
many blanks. The barren ground must be proved as 
well as the mine and every dollar that is actually put into 
the ground, whether it strikes another dollar or proves 
that there is no dollar there to strike, serves its purpose in 
developing the country. 

The \\'est has drawn much of her development capital 
from a few financiers of the East who recognized her won- 
derful possibilities and were ready to send gold hunting 
for more gold. 

Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate, has been in the 
first rank of those who have opened their cofifers and 
poured their treasure into the mining regions of Southern 
Nevada. Long before the railroad penetrated the remote 
parts of the state, Air. Schwab covered the sagebrush to 
see with his own eyes the prospects it was ofifering him. 
Upon the advice of experienced mining men whom he 
has kept in the field since the early days of Tonopah, he 
has invested money in nearly every camp in the state. He 
was first attracted to Tonopah. where he purchased from 
Tom Lockhart and A. D. ]\Iyers the controlling inter- 
est in Tonopah Extension. The most noted of all his 
purchases has been that of the Alontgomery-Shoshone 
and other properties which go to make up the holdings 
of the famous Shoshone Consolidated. He later acquired 







other properties in the Bullfrog District, which make him 
by far the largest owner in a district which promises to 
be a producer long after some of the more sensational 
camps have ceased to exist. Mr. Schwab is chief among 
the owners of the most promising properties in Greenwater 
and he is interested in various other projects in the state, 
including townsite interests and a plan to erect a smelter. 

A Vv^ord about Charles M. Schwab, the man. There 
are few men in the public eye today whose lives are so full 
of interest as that of this steel magnate. He was bom in 
Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, February i8, 
1862, and was educated by the Franciscan brothers at 
Loretti. He began his business career as a grocer's boy. 
and his first work in connection with the steel industry, 
of which he was destined to become the head, was in the 
engineering department of the Edgar Thompson Steel 
Company, where he drove stakes for $1.00 a da\. The 
story of his rapid rise from that time forward has stirred 
many a boy to greater efforts. Suffice it to say that in 
1897 ^^ "^^^ made president of the Carnegie Steel Works 
and became the highest salaried man in the world. 

In all his work Mr. Schwab has carried out the con- 
solidation idea. He believes that concentration saves cost 
in production and that the salvation of the working man 
and the capitalist lies in the trust. 

In all his mining ventures in Nevada he has carried out 
this same plan, as is shown in the consolidation of so many 
properties in the Bullfrog District, and also in the Green- 
water consolidation. 

His Nevada associates know Charles Schwab and ad- 
mire him for a man of big brain, keen judgment, splendid 
executive ability, affable, of sympathetic nature and great 
generosity. Of his wealth he gives abundantly as many 
public institutions and countless individuals could testify. 



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T. L. ODDIE 

RITE the name of Jim Butler and you 
tell the beginning of the history of To- 
nopah ; write the name of T. L. Oddie 
and you give the world a mining camp, 
full grown and a winner. 

In the sleepy little town of Belmont, 

which was at that time almost all of Southern Nevada, 
there was a young attorney endowed with plenty of 
brains but httle coin of the realm. In this latter particu- 
lar he resembled his fellow townsmen, for as some hu- 
morist writes, there was not more than $26 in all Nye 
County. Mr. Oddie was assistant district attorney, su- 
perintendent of schools, and various other things benefi- 
cial to the people of Belmont, but not particularly remu- 
nerative to T. h. Oddie. To quote the same humorist, his 
salary was $50 a month, payable in scrip in seven years. 
It was not then Oddie the miner, or Oddie the state sen- 
ator that people heard of, but just Oddie the assistant dis- 
trict attorney, or Oddie, "the fellow that looked after the 
school kids." But young Oddie was not the sort of a man 
to be content long with a salary of $50 a month payable 
in seven years, and when Jim Butler returned from that 
now famous trip to Klondyke with some rock that looked 
good, Mr. Oddie listened to his appeal and arranged to 
have the assay made. It was the beginning of a new life 
for Oddie. This was in the summer of 1900. By of- 
fering an assayer in Austin an interest in the property 
Jim Butler had discovered, and securing his report, Mr. 
Oddie made possible the Tonopah of today. With Jim 
Butler and W. Brougher, Mr. Oddie went to the Mizpah 
ground located by Butler, and there the three men, work- 







ing by turns, sank a shaft fifteen feet. From there they 
hauled the ore, two wagonloads in all, to Belmont, and 
then a hundred miles farther to the nearest railroad at 
Austin. The $600, which was the net result of this ship- 
ment, was the first mone}- to come from the now famous 
Mizpah Ledge. The story of Tonopah, with its leasers 
who gophered Oddie INIountain and made a fortune for 
its locators and for themselves, tells the rest. Mr. 
Oddie opened the Tonopah Alining Company's ground, 
as well as the Belmont and Jim Butler, and he made them 
all pay. He acquired heavy interests in the Midway Min- 
ing Company, the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad, and was 
the first president of the Nye & Ormsby County Bank. 
He was one of the first on the ground after the discovery 
of Goldfield, and put much money into that camp and 
Bullfrog, which has helped largely in the development 
of both. He has always been interested in securing pub- 
lic utilities and owns extensive water rights. One of his 
pet projects is a gigantic plan to bring an abundance of 
water into Goldfield and Tonopah, which should solve 
for all time the water problem in the two camps. 

Mr. Oddie was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,. October 24, 
1870. He was educated in Orange, N. J., and later gradu- 
ated from the night school of New York University, New 
York City, where he was admitted to the bar. In 1898 
the management of the Anson Phelps Stokes estate in.- 
duced Mr. Oddie to come to Nevada, where the estate had 
large interests. Since that time he has never left the 
state except foi-1 brief visits. Few men have so many 
friends. He is a quiet, gentle-mannered man, handsome, 
trusts others implicitly, disHkes to say "no" to any propo- 
sition that has merit, and there are innumerable young 
men in Nevada today who owe their start in life to T. L. 
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the descent to the valley is sharp. The contact is dis- 
tinct and the ledges are the true copper rock. Thev are 
there in plain view, and the more one looks, the more he 
is convinced. By the outcroppings the ledges may be 
traced practically 2,000 feet along the side of the moun- 
tain. 

Previous to the discovery of Ubehebe, Mr. Salsberry 
had been deeply interested in other copper properties. He 
was one of the first men with money to enter the Green- 
water District. His agents had secured many claims there 
and later Mr. Salsberry himself made a visit to the vallev. 
He was prominent in the afifairs of the Death Valley Cop- 
per Mining Company and was an important factor in the 
organization and exploitation of the company which 
Charles M. Schwab and his associates have backed with 
their millions. 

His judgment appears to be almost infallible. He has 
co-operated with many of the other prominent men of 
Nevada in the development of mining property and his 
career in the state is a record of successful operations. 

In almost every camp of Nevada Mr. Salsberry has 
lumber yards, and in the management of these properties 
he has been so successful that they have added materially 
to his fortune. He is generous, a good booster for the 
state, is public-spirited and is always ready to lend a hand 
or advance money for the betterment of the community. 
He is essentially a self-made man. He has been a miner 
for years and seems to have been one of those destined by 
the Goddess of Chance to find a fortune in the ground. 
He is known throughout the country. His faith in th-^; 
state is the faith of the man who knows. He frequently 
makes trips to the East, and when he speaks, eastern cap- 
ital is ready to listen and be convinced. John Salsberry 
is big, handsome and Western. 






UDGE J. P. O'BRIEN missed the San 
Francisco earthquake six weeks, coming 
to Tonopah just that length of time be- 
fore the cataclysmic disturbance in the 
good old city by the Golden Gate. The 
Judge did not leave San Francisco be- 
cause he knew the earthquake was due to arrive, but be- 
cause he recognized in Nevada a place worthy of a man's 
best efforts. He was born in San Francisco, attended the 
public schools and read law under the now famous at- 
torney, D. M. Delmas. Mr. O'Brien formed a partner- 
ship with E. L. Campbell, which continued several years. 
He acquired a peculiar fascination for mining law. In 
1896 he went to Tuolumne County, where he built up an 
extensive practice, largely cases of mining law. Judge 
O'Brien returned to San Francisco in 1903, and almost 
immediately he became the legal representative of some of 
the biggest mining companies and other interests in the 
State. 

Coming to Tonopah, Mr. O'Brien at once entered act- 
ively upon the practice of his profession, devoting his time 
principally to the law pertaining to mining, water rights 
and corporation business generally. 

May 6, 1907, he was appointed District Judge bv Gov- 
ernor Sparks, to fill the position created by the last legis- 
lature, when a new district was formed. Although the 
salary is the highest ever paid to any judge in the state, 
Mr. O'Brien refused the appointment three times, pre- 
ferring to look after the extensive interests which he rep- 
resented, but was persuaded to accept. He is a Democrat, 
strong in the councils of the party, and on the bench is ad- 
mitted to have few equals as an interpreter of the laws. 



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ITHOUT learned expounders of min- 
ing and corporation laws the actual 
business of this Nevada wonder-land 
would be seriously retarded. Such an 
exponent of legal lore is Hugh H. 
Brown, member of the widely known 
firm of Campbell, Metson & Brown of San Francisco 
and Nevada. 

The firm established offices in Tonopah in the davs of 
the camp's infancy and has had no small part in up- 
building the community, ^Ir. Brown being the resident 
member. 

Graduating from Stanford in the class of "g6, Mr. 
Brown was admitted to the California bar in the same 
year. He received his first training in mining law under 
the late Patrick Reddy. When the firm decided to open 
offices in Nevada, Mr. Brown was sent to the sagebrush 
and has remained ever since. He represents some of the 
biggest mining enterprises in the state, among them be- 
ing manv owned by the Brock interests. The interests of 
the firm have not been confined to Tonopah, for they have 
branch offices in nearly every camp in Southern Nevada. 
Among the many corporations that Mr. Brown guides 
legally aright are: Tonopah Mining Company, the 
Jim Butler Tonopah ^Mining Company, the Tonopah & 
Goldfield Railroad, the Bullfrog & Goldfield Railroad, 
the Desert Power & Mill Company, the Tonopah United 
Water Company, and the Nevada Copper Company. 

Mr. Brown is the sagebrush Beau Brummel, and — 
whisper it lest he hear you — probably the best dressed 
man hi Nevada. 



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XLY in Xevada, where the poor man of 
today is the rich man of tomorrow, 
could a man with a hundred dollars' 
worth of mining stock as his sole claim 
to wealth at the beginning of one year, 
write his name for $175,000 before that 
year was nine months old. 

Yet that was just what L. L. Mushett. erstwhile tele- 
graph operator and now prominent mine operator, did. 
Mr. Mushett was born in California in November, 1874, 
and at the age of eighteen entered the employment of the 
Southern Pacific as a telegrapher. When the railroad 
was built into Tonopah he went to the camp to be chief 
dispatcher for the system and served in this position for 
two years, when he was made postmaster. This ofifice 
he resigned to engage in the mining business and he 
started in with practically no capital. He organized the 
firm of Mushett & Lawson, and became associated in 
business with W. E. Lawson. Fortune smiled upon him. 
He bought stocks and he bought the right ones. When 
the big merger at Goldfield took place he held 20,000 
shares of Consolidated. Today he has interests in every 
camp in the state. He is president of the J. P. Fitting 
Company and with this company has floated many suc- 
cessful mining promotions. Among others he and his as- 
sociates secured the McAfee Copper property in Inyo 
County, sold to Charles M. Schwab, and now known as 
the Loretto Copper Company ; the Mears & Sanger cop- 
per properties in Ubehebe sold to John Salsberry and his 
eastern associates ; and several others from which great 
wealth is expected. 







UBLIC spirited, when applied as a term 
descriptive of a man's character, is often 
misused, but not so in the case of Key 
Pittman, who stands high among men 
of Nevada and whose work as a mining 
attorney has brought him more than 
local fame. He is a Southern gentleman, and proud of it. 
Mississippi was his birthplace, his education being ob- 
tained in that state and at the Southwestern University, 
Clarksville, Tenn. He went to Seattle and was prominent 
in legal circles in that city. In 1897 he went to Dawson 
and then to Xome, practicing with much success. Then 
he came to Tonopah and soon became identified with some 
of the biggest mining companies in the State. He rep- 
resents in a legal way a long list of corporations, some of 
the most important being the Tonopah Extension, Bull- 
frog Mining Company, United Greenwater Copper, 
Nevada Smelting and Mines corporation ; he is assistant 
counsel of the Montgomery-Shoshone Consolidated, and 
others equally important. He is attorney for the Schwab 
interests, State Bank and Trust Company, Southern 
Nevada Telephones and Telegraph Company and is a 
director in the big Greenwater properties acquired by 
John Brock and associates. His value to the public 
as a citizen is seen in his appointment by the Nevada 
Supreme Court as delegate to the Universal congress of 
lawyers and jurists in St. Louis in 1904; appointment by 
the Governor as delegate to the National Irrigation Con- 
gress in Portland, 1905 ; appointment as colonel on the 
Governor's staff, 1907, and his selection as delegate to 
the National Irrigation Congress in Sacramento. 
A true son of Dixie-land, a true citizen of Nevada. 











ZEB KENDALL 

HEX there was but one frame dwelling 
in Tonopah, and a score of men and one 
woman in camp, Zeb Kendall, a miner 
who had been w^orking in Delamar, ar- 
rived with a small pack and not much 
of anything else in the world but a 
giant physique and a desire for gold. The giant was born 
in Kansas in 1875, and lived most of the early part of his 
life on his father's ranch, where he learned to fear noth- 
ing and to like hard work. He always had a desire to 
mine and in 1896 went to Delamar, where he gained his 
practical experience under ground. 

He arrived in Tonopah just in time to begin leasing 
on Mount Oddie and in this way he made his first stake. 
In 1902 he built the Palace Hotel, the first hostelry in 
Tonopah. At the beginning of the excitement in Gold- 
field. Zeb Kendall opened the January lease which was 
the first in that camp. He and his associates struck it 
lucky on this and hit the ledge when thev had been work- 
ing only two days. News of this strike when out to the 
world and it was not long before leasing was the popular 
form of mining in this section. 

Various other ventures followed this one and they all 
met with a more or less degree of success. i\Ir. Kendall 
started the Zeb Kendall Brokerage Company and gained 
the confidence of a large part of the investing world. 
A big hearted boyish fellow, with nothing but kind 
words and kind thoughts for all, he has always had a host 
of friends. He has known what it is to be rich one day 
and poor the next and there are few men in the state 
whose fortunes have gone through such meteoric changes. 



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SANDWICHED career of banking and 
mining- and more banking and more 
mining has brought the name of Bert L. 
Smith into prominence in nearly every 
mining camp of the west. Mr. Smith 
was born in Leeds, Green County, New 
York, but he reahzed before he had reached a very mature 
age that the West was the place for him, and since 1882 
he has been living in frontier towns. His first years in 
the West were spent in Colorado mining and later he 
was active in Wyoming and Old Mexico. In 
1897 he went to Eureka, one of the early-day camps, 
and there he purchased the Eureka County Bank, an in- 
stitution of which he is still vice president. With his 
brother. O. J. Smith, he began acquiring banking inter- 
ests all over the state and his second move was the or- 
ganization of the Southern Nevada Bank at Bullfrog, 
which is now the First National Bank at Rhyolite. This 
was in the first days of the excitement in the Bullfrog 
district and that same year Mr. Smith moved his head- 
quarters from Eureka to Tonopah. Early in the Man- 
hattan boom he started the Bank of ^Manhattan and is its 
president today. 

The First National Bank, of Elko of which he is vice 
president, was organized by him in 1893. He is president 
of the Manhattan Pine Nut Mining ompany, the Yellow 
Horse, vice-president of the Eureka Manhattan, and a 
director in the ^lanhattan Sedan. 

Bert L. Smith is a typical successful business man. He 
is clear headed, alert, decisive and possessed of down-to- 
date methods in mining and banking. 



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and developer of mining property, the task of the sur- 
veying engineer is of as much or greater importance in 
the upbuilding of a great mining community. 

Irving Macdonald, senior member of the firm of Mac- 
donald & Moran, surveyors and engineer, has a record of 
great achievements in his work. Montana was his birth- 
place, and Helena his native city, where he opened his 
eyes in 1870. He was educated in California, and gained 
his first mining knowledge in the field and in the office. 
He was a member of the firm of Harper & ^Macdonald 
in Butte. 

Along with many others who formed a general 
exodus of mining men bound for Nevada, 'Sir. Macdon- 
ald went to Tonopah in 1904 and opened an office. His 
firm made the first map of Greenwater and has just pub- 
lished a new map of the Tonopah district that is prob- 
ably the best and most complete ever issued. 

Aside from his success in his profession, 'Sir. ]\Iac- 
donald has been active in mining and has acquired inter- 
ests in Manhattan, Greenwater, Silver Peak, and several 
other camps. 

Mr. Macdonald in official capacity is land attorney for 
Nevada, having been appointed to this position by the 
dejiartmenl at Washington. 







WILLIAM J. MORAN 

ILLIAM J. MORAN, associate of Irv- 
ing ]vIacdonald in the firm of Alacdon- 
ald & ^Nloran, surveyors and engineers, 
is another man who has decided that 
Nevada is the best place after all. He 
is a natural Nevadan, his father being 
one of the prominent mining men of the Comstock days. 
Mr. Moran was born in Mrginia City, not a very long 
time ago. After graduating from the University of Ne- 
vada in 1901 he went to Butte, Montana, and entered the 
office of Harper & ]\Iacdonald, as civil engineer. Not long 
after this the old longing for the sagebrush state came 
over him and he decided to return to Nevada. Looking 
over the list of desirable camps in which he might locate, 
he settled on Tonopah and subsequent events show that he 
made no mistake. 

Mr. Moran succeeded 'Sir. Harper in the firm which 
then became, and has remained since, Macdonald & Moran. 
His work in iMontana had been of a nature to give him 
much actual experience in the mining country and the 
firm soon had a business that grew toward every point of 
the compass. 

Both Mr. IMoran and Mr. ISIacdonald are known all over 
Southern Nevada, and in the north as well. Their field 
work takes thern into every important district in the great 
mining country and they take rank with enterprising men 
who came, saw Nevada, conquered all obstacles, and 
stayed: reliable successful men. full of confidence and de- 
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CHARLES T. GRIMES 




X NEVADA CITY, California, no 
longer ago than 1882, a boy was born 
and christened Charles T. Grimes. The 
birth records, if Nevada City boasts of 
such records, give his name thus and the 
family Bible also bears like witness, but 
the voung man himself would look up in startled wonder 
if addressed as Charles. In Tonopah today "Puddy" 
Grimes holds a place in the hearts of the people that i- 
entirelv his own. When Charles Grimes was old enough 
to understand that he had a name, some small youngster 
called him "Paddy." Some other more original friend 
changed it to "Puddy," and "Puddy" he is today. 

In the first days of Tonopah Puddy Grimes drove alone 
from his home in California to the scene of the mining ex- 
citement and there he has remained ever since. Always 
jolly, always willing to lend a helping hand to do for 
someone in need, and always the same little smiling fun- 
maker, it was not long until he was one of the best-liked 
fellows in camp. During the black pneumonia epidemic 
in Tonopah, which was little short of a plague, there were 
many who learned a side of the man they will never for- 
get. People were dying on every hand, and there were no 
nurses to be had. During the whole of that long and 
memorable winter he worked night after night to aid in 
the fight against death. The name of "Puddy" followed 
him into Tonopah and he. thinking it a good joke on 
himself, registered to vote under the name and later made 
his political campaign under the same cognomen. Today 
every document which passes through the county re- 
corder's ofifice bears the name of Puddv Grimes. 



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HERE are some men on whom advers- 
ity acts as a stimulus ; men who work 
and strive and finally see success at 
their finger-tips only to see it slip away 
before they have clutched it firmly ; 
then strive and work again. 



To such men the goddess of chance may be fickle many 
times, but in the end she bestows her lasting gift. Marius 
Duvall is one of these. He arrived in Tonopah on the 
stage one day early in the year 1902. In Tonopah he 
met Tom Lockhart and bonded from him what is now the 
Tonopah Extension Mining Company. He went to San 
Francisco with it, but through the short-sightedness of 
one of his associates lost the ground. 

In 1904 he again appeared in Tonopah and organized 
the Tonopah Standard Mining Company to develop 
ground in the western part of the camp — convinced that 
the enormous ore bodies of this district lie in an east and 
west zone. The shaft on this property is now down 625 
feet and will be continued to the "Lode Porphyry." 

He went to Death Valley and engaged in prospecting 
for copper, but suspended operations there until the rail- 
roads, now building into that region, are completed. 

His career has been a versatile one. Born in Mary- 
land, educated at the United States Naval Academy, he 
went west about twenty years ago and has been engaged 
in mining in ]\Iontana, California and Nevada ever since. 

There are few experiences that fall to the lot of the 
miner that have not been his, and through all of them he 
has reniained a cheerful o])timist. 







Who's Who in Nevada. 




WILL C. RUSSELL 

HE scion of the family of the pioneers 
of CaUfornia and the Comstock, Will 
C. Russell, secretary and treasurer of 
the United Mine Syndicate of Nevada, 
comes naturally by his love for life on 
the desert. His father crossed the 
plains in the early days, and his uncle, Charles H. Strong, 
was superintendent of the Gould and Curry at Virginia 
City. 

Will Russell was born in California in 1873 and re- 
ceived his preliminary education at Oakland, graduating 
from the University of California with the class of '98. 
While in college he was Berkeley correspondent for 
the San Francisco Call and for three years was manager 
of the University of California magazine. 

Immediately after his graduation he went to Alaska, 
and spent most of his time in the Klondike until the fall 
of 1901, visiting in the meantime all the important camps 
of Alaska and of the British northwest. Since that time 
he has been gaining practical mining experience in Cali- 
fornia and Nevada. He was interested in, and in charge 
of, properties in Placer, Plumos, and El Dorado coun- 
ties, until he became secretary and manager of the United 
Mine Syndicate, a company backed largely by eastern 
capitalists and operating properties at Bullfrog and At- 
wood. 

Mr. Russell holds a large block of stock in this Syndi- 
cate and has other mining and commercial interests of 
importance. He is a partner in the Silver Peak Mercan- 
tile Company and the Tonopah Manhattan Forwarding 
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THOMAS JEFFERSON BELL 



EVENTY miles out from Tonopah, liv- 
ing on a beautiful ranch on Reese river, 
is a man who had not a little to do with 
history-making in Southern Nevada. 
He is Thomas Jefferson Bell, and he 
has been prospecting in Nye county for 
forty-seven years. He discovered Southern Klondyke, the 
camp to which Jim Butler was going when he discovered 
Tonopah. He is the kind of man to whom any one would 
be proud to take off his hat. 

Elected to the assembly, he was chosen speaker of that 
body, and has seen long service in the interests of Ne- 
vada. Almost half a century before Southern Nevada 
showed any signs of becoming the great country it is 
today, he was living there, making of a strip of barren 
land, a beautiful ranch, raising a large family of boys, 
and prospecting in between crops. 

He has a large fund of good stories gleaned from ex- 
perience, and he recounts them with all the delight of a 
small boy. | 

At one time he had to make out some papers for a 
policy in a Masonic aid society. Answering the ques- 
tions which were put to him as to his occupation, he said 
"mining." 

The examiner wrote back: "Can't you give some less 
dangerous occupation than mining, and who is your 
family physician? Where did he graduate?" 

"The only risk in being a miner is that of starving to 
death," the Senator wrote back, and, "as for the family 
physician — the nearest doctor is a hundred miles away, 
and we have never seen him." 



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HE faculty of knowing when to buy and 
when to sell, a fair quota of luck, and a 
generous measure of business ability 
are the principal factors that have con- 
tributed to the g-reat success in Nevada 
of John Y. McKane. 
The psychological moment found him in Tonopah, later 
in Goldfield, and still later in Bullfrog". In each camp he 
was an early investor in some of the best properties. His 
first lucky venture in Goldfield was a lease on the Jumbo, 
from which he and his associates realized a large sum of 
money. An hour after L. L. Patrick had secured an op- 
tion on the Combination, Mr. McKane tried to buy the 
property, but he was too late. From Tom Lockhart he 
secured an option on the Tonopah Extension at fifteen 
cents a share. This was sold to Charles ^I. Schwab, and 
Mr. McKane retained a good interest for himself, also 
being made Mr. Schwab's representative in Nevada. He 
bought other properties in Goldfield and several in 
Diamondfield and Bullfrog, selling most of them at the 
right moment. 

From Nevada, Mr. McKane went to Cobalt. Canada, 
where he made another big mining deal. Since that time 
he has been visiting his ancestral halls in Scotland. Much 
of the time each year is spent at his beautiful country 
place in New Brunswick. He is a Scotchman, of mag- 
netic personality, possesses remarkable oratorical abilities 
and has the proud record of almost invariably winning 
that for which he strives. 





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JOHN C KIRCHEN 

MONG the men who are actively en- 
gaged in helping to swell the produc- 
tion receipts of Tonopah's mines, is 
John G. Kirchen. 

Mr. Kirchen is general manager of 
the Tonopah Extension Mining Com- 
pany's property, and in this capacity he has charge of the 
development work of the mine. When the various inter- 
ests of Don Gillies made it impossible for him to devote 
the necessary time to the active management of the Tono- 
pah Extension, Mr. Kirchen was chosen to fill his place, 
and all who are conversant with the afifairs of the mine 
declare that the choice was a wise one. 

Mr. Kirchen was born at Lake Linden, Michigan, 
thirty-five years ago, and he received his mining educa- 
tion at the Michigan College of Mines, at Houghton, 
Michigan, where he graduated with the class of 1894. 
He was connected with various large copper interests in 
the Micbi'2:an copper districts for six years before' he 
came west. Since that time he has been engaged in the 
examination of mines for eastern capitalists, and this 
work has carried him into nearly every mining field of the 
west. Though a young man, his opinion carries weight 
with men of prominence, and he has been remarkably 
successful in everything he has undertaken. 




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GOLDFIELD 




REATEST of all of these is Goldfield. 
An infant born of the prodigy Tono- 
pah, she, like the Goddess Minerva, 
who sprang full grown from the brain 
of Jove, was a grown city before she 
had become used to being a camp. 
Here is a case wherein the child has not only outgrown 
the parent but all the ancestors as well. 
- With a population of nearly 20,000 Goldfield is the 
largest city in Nevada. Her wage-earners receive $27,000 
a day, or a grand total of nearly ten milhon a year, and 
she is only four years old. 

During at least three of those four years the attention 
of the entire world has been focused on this camp. The 
names of her mines have become common words on the 
Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast, on the ocean liners 
and in the metropolitan centers of the Old World and 
the New, on trains and street-cars. Everywhere men 
talk Goldfield. Many who have never seen a mine are 
familiar with "high grade." In Goldfield it is the only 
thing that counts. The men mine in their waking hours 
and in their sleep. They talk mines at breakfast, lunch- 
eon and dinner. The theatres play to empty houses and 
each one that starts finally closes and the actors depart 
for places where they can at least make meal tickets. 
People have no time to be amused, and if they had time 
they would not care for it. The game they are playing 
is more fascinating than any man has ever devised. 

To the tenderfoot dropped in the desert for the first 
time Goldfield presents a most remarkable sight. Com- 
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at night, into a brilliantly lighted city with cabmen and 
bus drivers all shouting at once the benefits of what thgy 
have to offer, is enough to startle anyone. To be driven 
to an hotel where accommodations are as good as can 
be found in almost any city of the size in the world, is 
the second surprise, and they come like an avalanche 
thereafter. 

Everywhere there are beautiful homes presided over 
by beautiful women who dress for dinner, have teas and 
luncheons, and dances and musicales, just as they do in 
New York ; who have bridge whist and a woman's club, 
and in short nearly everything they would have if they 
were anywhere else in the world. 

It was not always thus. There are those in Goldfield 
who can tell a different story. They remember the day 
when a man with a bit of canvas over his head, was a 
lucky man. They remember the day when the man with 
a piece of sheet iron, had an ideal cook stove, and was to 
be envied among men. They remember the day when 
bacon and beans were a pleasurable reality three times a 
day. and oysters on the half-shell only a dream of the past 
or the future. 

Men have wrought these changes — wrought them with 
their hands, their brains and their money. Millions have 
been spent in bringing Goldfield to its present state, but 
Goldfield has paid compound interest on every cent that 
has been spent for her betterment. 

Goldfield's first location was made in February, 1903, 
on the north side of Columbia mountain two miles to the 
south of the heart of Goldfield, as it is today. Harry 
Stimler and William Marsh called the location Sand- 
storm, because on the day of its discovery the air was 
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Water determined the location of the town of Cold- 
field for it was around a well at the corner of Mam and 
Mvers street, dn- there by A. D. Myers and T. D Mur- 
phv that the first tents were pitched, and the nucleus of 
the citv was formed. In October. 1903, with the organi- 
zation 'of the Goldfield Townsite Company the Goldfie d 
n.ining district was organized. The f ^--"^ --^^/^ ^ 
population cleared away the sage-brush and laid off Mam 
street Lots were sold for a song, others were given 
awav, and many could be had for the squatting^ They 
tell a storv now of one that was so d ^^^ ^t-^"^>'-^^,^,^^^^. 
lars later'bought for three hundred and fifty, and finally 
iost'in a single hand at a poker game. That lot is today 
worth many thousands. 

The postoffice was established in camp m January, 1904, 
and that postoffice is todav doing a business equal to that 
of anv citv in the United States three times its size. 

The camp was started right m the beginning. There 
were real mines there almost upon the surface and values 
became better all the time. Each new strike was a new 
triumph, and when the world heard of Mohawk Com- 
bination, Sandstorm, Kendall, Florence, Red Top, Jumbo 
Great Bend, Gold Bar, and a score of others, any one ot 
which would be enough to warrant the building of a 
camp, the world could not help opening its eyes 

The leasers helped to make Goldfield. Spurred on by 
the lure of the shining gold which they knew was under 
the ground, and pressed by a time limit, they put all their 
moiiev and all their energy to work, and the fortunes 
which thev have banked, have been their reward. 

Goldfield has had a remarkable infancy and a remark- 
able growth, but those fade into insignificance m com- 
parison with the future which appears to lie before her. 
The spectacular element may vanish, but the gold is 
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HEREVER men gather to develop the 
natural resources of the land and build 
a community, it falls to the lot of a few 
to lead, to many to follow. In the won- 
derful story of Nevada's golden out- 
pouring of riches there appear charac- 
ters who stand out in bold relief against the background 
of the majority. In the pursuit of wealth on Nevada's 
deserts men pause to speak in praise of the work and 
achievements of J. P. Loftus, of the firm of Loftus & 
Davis. 

What measure of success has come to this man, and 
Fortune has smiled on his efforts, is due to perseverance, 
to keen business judgment, and to his own honest en- 
deavors. Of the men who have made Nevada, Loftus 
and Davis stand in the foremost rank. 

J. P. Loftus was born in New York. He acquired an 
education, as he has done all else that he possesses, by his 
own efiforts. He was left an orphan at the age of six 
years, but has faced the world manfully on his own re- 
sources from that time to this. Mr. Loftus came to the 
camp of Goldfield in the early days. As he expresses it, 
his office was under his hat, for the first two years. 

The mining operations of Mr. Loftus and his partner, 
Mr. Davis, have been on an extensive scale, so extensive 
that the firm has the reputation throughout Nevada and 
the United States of making as many mines as any one 
firm in this western country. Both men had been thor- 
oughly trained for their work, Mr. Loftus having had 
seventeen years of experience. Some of their big ven- 
tures were the Block Five lease on the Sandstorm, under- 




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taken November 22,, 1904; the purchase and development 
of 100 acres of land comprising the property of the Bull- 
frog Gold Bar Mining Company, four miles from Rhyo- 
lite ; the Great Bend Mining Company near Diamond- 
field, in January, 1906, and the Round Mountain Mining 
Company in March, 1906. The latter property was se- 
cured in conjunction with J. P. Sweeney, J. S. Cook and 
Louis Gordon. 

For the accommodation of the News Publishing Com- 
pany, of which Mr. Loftus is said to own the control, he 
has planned and constructed at a cost of $100,000, the 
News Building at the corner of Crook and Columbia 
streets, and as president of the Montezuma Club the work 
of planning and constructing the new home of that organ- 
ization has been entrusted to him. There is hardly a 
large business enterprise of merit in which he has not a 
finger. 

A word concerning the man : Mr. Loftus has a serene 
and manly disposition that inspires confidence. He has 
an intellectual forehead, a keen, penetrating eye, and a 
rugged, honest face. He stands for what is right and 
honorable, and his remarkable success is so justly merited 
that not even a business rival would attempt to detract 
from it. 

Mrs. Loftus, before her marriage, was Gertrude Portia 
Hopkins. Their boy was the first baby in Goldfield. Many 
successful men are prone to take all the credit for their 
achievements to themselves, but ]\lr. Loftus is not of that 
class. Speaking reminiscentlv of his work, he pays a 
loving tribute to the woman whose constant words of en- 
couragement have upheld and supported him even in times 
of apparent adversity, and to her he attributes in great 
part that "measure of success" which he modestly admits 
he has attained. 






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JAMES R. DAVIS 

XE of the ablest men in the business of 
mining in Nevada is James R. Davis, 
of the firm of Loftus & Davis. Few 
men in the state have so many produc- 
ing mines to their credit. There are 
^ those who go even farther and say there 

is no man who has such infaUible judgment and intuition 
in choosing properties. As proof of this are six pro- 
ducing mines in the Loftus-Davis combination, every one 
of which is the result of his judgment in the matter of 
location and purchase. 

Jim Davis got his education and equipment in the field. 
He landed in Goldfield without a dollar, but with fifteen 
years of more or less successful mining work back of 
him. He was born in Kansas thirty-three years ago, and 
began mining when he was still a boy. Mr. Davis went 
from Colorado to Goldfield with the first rush, and from 
the start his operations were successful. His first fortu- 
nate venture was the location and discovery of the Sand- 
storm Bonanza, which gave him the name of Sand- 
storm Davis. In the early da}s of this mine's history 
a quarter of a milUon dollars were taken out. When the 
excitement of Bullfrog lured many of the Goldfield men 
to try their luck in the southern camps, he prospected 
there and secured lOO acres of rich mineral ground which 
is now the property of the Bullfrog Gold Bar Mining 
Companv, one of the most promising of that district. This 
property has nearly four millions blocked out. and with 
the completion of a mill will become a great wealth pro- 
ducer. :^lr. Davis has always had active management 
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Following the selection of the property in Bullfrog, 
Mr. Davis secured the property of the Great Bend Min- 
ing Company near Diamondfield. At this time the prop- 
erty was undeveloped, but now the company has exten- 
sive workings. Much high grade ore has already been 
shipped. Next, following, was the purcliase of the 
Round Mountain Sunnyside Mine, the original bonanza 
of that country. Mr. Davis went there first in ]\Iarch, 
1906, when the Manhattan excitement was at its height. 
From this mine have come the richest specimens ever 
seen in Nevada, and it has produced in bullion at the rate 
of $50,000 a month. The last and what promises to be 
greatest of all, is the Nevada Hills, in which he is one of 
the principal owners, and in the short time Mr. Da- 
vis has been interested in this property, the progress 
has been so marvelous that it is believed it will be not 
only the greatest mine of the Fairview district, but one of 
the greatest in the entire state. 

Mr. Davis directed the afit'airs of the Combination 
Fraction, ground which has already produced three hun- 
dred thousand dollars. He was instrumental in turning 
the great Combination into the big merger at four million 
dollars, which gives himself and Mr. Loftus a substantial 
interest in the merger and makes him a director in the 
Consolidated. He has an eighth interest in the quarter- 
million-dollar Goldfield hotel, and is connected with va- 
rious other enterprises, which are making of Goldfield a 
city instead of a camp. 

A mining venture that has the stamp of approval of 
James R. Davis upon it is sure of hearty supporters, and 
the name of Loftus & Davis is one to conjure by. As a 
man INIr. Davis is honored by all who know him. He is 
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THOMAS G. LOCKHART 




HERE is an unassuming, quiet-man- 
nered man in Nevada who does not talk 
much of himself or what he is doing, 
but he is the man to keep your eye on. 
His name is Thomas Lockhart and he 
has done things in the mining country 
that have made the population of Nevada and the West 
stand attention. The story of how Tom Lockhart picked 
up a fortune that other men had passed by is a tale of the 
desert that will never grow old. Here it is : 

Born in New Jersey, he came West when a young man 
to work as a brakeman on the Union Pacific Railroad, 
but the lure of mining soon drew him away from^ his rail- 
road occupation and twenty years ago he began pros- 
pecting. He was in Pioche when Tonopah was discov- 
ered. 

Tom Lockhart is not superstitious. He will back goo;l 
sense and sound judgment against prejudice at anv time, 
and he showed this by locating thirteen claims on Friday. 
Future developments have led him to believe that Friday 
is his lucky day and thirteen his fortune-bringing num- 
ber. He sold his claims in Tonopah and made his first 
big stake. At the beginning of the excitement in Gold- 
field he threw his sleeping blankets on a freighter and 
started for the new camp. He bought several good 
claims, among them being a half interest in the Florence, 
believed by many to be the richest mine in the section. 

When Lockhart first went to Tonopah he was under a 
grubstake contract to A. D. Parker, of Denver. When 
he paid $5,000 for his interest in the Florence the "wise 
ones" stood by and addressed him as "Mr. Easvmark" and 



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other terms of a similar import. But Lockhart went to 
Denver and inquired if Parker wanted to '"come in" on 
the purchase. Parker did, and the property has been 
producing good round dollars ever since. 

Mr. Lockhart owns thd Red Rock and the Fissure 
group, which he bought soon after he made the purchase 
of the Florence. He is holding the ground, which, in his 
opinion, is marvelously rich and which he would not dis- 
pose of for a million dollars. He is president of the 
Jumbo Extension and owns a controlling interest in the 
property. 

Proving that Tom Lockhart was destined to make a 
fortune in spite of all obstacles is the story of his partial 
venture into the realms of the brokerage business. He 
staked a broker on the proposition that the latter knew the 
brokerage business, while Lockhart understood the min- 
ing feature. The broker proceeded to lose $20,000 for 
Mr. Lockhart, and the only thing he had to offer in lieu 
of this large sum of good money was a block of Junibo 
Extension stock, considered at that time a rank wild-cat 
proposition. But quiet Tom Lockhart said nothing, just 
looked over the property of Jumbo extension and began to 
buy more stock. Once more he drew on himself the ridi- 
cule of those who thought they knew, but a little thing 
like that did not deter him in the least. Now he could 
convert his holdings into cash for several million dollars. 

Throughout his operations Mr. Lockhart has had the 
confidence and backing of A. D. Parker, vice-president 
of the Colorado & Southern Railroad. 

Lockhart is a "rough and ready" type of person. He has 
been described as a quiet, unspoiled man who, notwith- 
standing his successful quest of fortune, is still the same 
careful little man he was when livine on a srrub-stake. 



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GEORGE WINGFIELD 

ESS than thirty years of age and called 
the Napoleon of Nevada finance, is 
George Wijigfield, vice-president of the 
famous Goldfield Consolidated, partner 
of United States Senator George S. 
Nixon, and one of the most widely 
known mining men in the world today. 

George Wingfield's fortune and his name as a mining 
man have been made by himself — the result of good busi- 
ness judgment, ability to handle men, untiring energy, 
and to quote an admiring old prospector, "durn fool 
luck." 

Most of the early part of George Wingfield's life was 
spent in Oregon, where he ran the gamut, tackling almost 
every kind of occvipation known to the man of the front- 
ier town from punching cattle up and down the line. 

He was in Nevada before the days of the sensational 
gold discoveries in Tonopah. and went to that camp from 
Winnemucca. He was practically without money when 
he landed in Tonopah, and it was there that he made his 
first winning. He was always ready to take a chance, 
and the Goddess of Luck, fickle goddess to so many, 
seemed to be bestowing her bounty on him. 

Fresh from financial successes in Tonopah, he arrived 
in Goldfield and plunged into the game. Like many oth- 
ers who have won fame and fortune in the gold land, he 
made his first Goldfield money from a block of Florence 
ground, and later the Mohawk, the Kendall, the Sand- 
storm, and several others of the winners contributed their 
quota to his bank account. The money that he put into 
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name became that of the IMohawk, and Mohawk has 
been the magical word wherever men knew of the exist- 
ence of Nevada. 

It was in the big- merger which made the great Con- 
sohdated of some of the best properties in Goldfield, that 
the executive ability of George Wingfield came to the sur- 
face. What men had guessed about him before, they 
proved ; today his business moves command the admira- 
tion of Nevada. 

The Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company, known 
in the parlance of the mining man and the stock broker as 
"The Consolidated," controls the Mohawk, Red Top, 
January, Jumbo, and Laguna, and Mr. Wingfield and his 
associates always keep on the alert for other properties. 
It is a five million dollar corporation, and is almost as 
famous abroad as it is at home. The Mohawk alone has 
produced more gold in less time from the smallest acre- 
age of ground, than any mine in the world. Ten million 
dollars in eight months tells the story in language that is 
substantial — all from a block of ground less than three 
acres in size. 

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A. D. MYERS 

O two men, Al ]*kl3ers and Tom ^lurphy, 
Goldfield owes her present location — 
and this is not more than one Httle part 
of what she owes to these same men. 

Possessed of blankets and burros and 
and bacon bought with money borrowed 
from friends in Tonopah, these two partners went into 
what is now the heart of the Goldfield district. Went and 
saw and conquered, made a fortune and paved the way 
for many men to reap golden harvests. 

Al Myers had been working around Tonopah looking 
for the golden opportunity but not finding it, when he 
suddenly made up his mind that he would go farther 
afield, and see what fortune would do for him. He started 
out with high hopes, but little did he guess how great 
would be the fulfillment of them. 

Everyone who has ever heard of Goldfield knows the 
result of that trip. Everyone who has ever heard of 
Goldfield knows of the Mohawk, and the names of Al 
Myers and the Mohawk are almost synonymous. 

The Mohawk made Goldfield famous. Even before the 
Mohawk there was the Combination Fraction, which was 
sold to L. L. Patrick for $75,000, and made a fortune for 
Mr. Patrick and his associates. Other claims were located 
which are now worth millions of dollars. 

Al Myers' first camp was at Rabbit Springs, and every 
morning he and his partner struck off over the sage-brush 
for the diggings. Always they had their eyes open for 
developable water, and when they saw signs of it at what 
is now the corner of Main and Myers streets, Goldfield, 
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was built. When news of the strike which these two 
prospectors made went out to the world and brought other 
money-seeking men from Tonopah and various other 
sections of the country, the new-comers pitched their tents 
around the well. 

Al Myers has made a fortune for himself and fortunes 
for many other men. He sold the bulk of his interest in 
Mohawk when that stock was less than one-fourth the 
figure at which it was later quoted, and even at that he 
made a fortune from it. Today he has interests all over 
the state, and he still sticks close to mining. He is gen- 
erally loved by all who know him, square to the core, 
good-hearted, genial, vigorous, strong and generous. He 
has the spirit of the gambler, and is willing to take long 
chances, but he also has a good business head, and in his 
case the combination has been a happy one. 

Mr. Myers spends much of his time in Goldfield, and 
has a beautiful home at Long Beach, near Los Angeles, 
where he counts his friends in almost as great numbers 
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J. H. MACMILLAN 

SK anyone who is the best g^ood fellow 
in Golclfield and "Harry Macmillan," 
will be the name you will hear. It is 
just as Harry or "Mac" that those who 
love him know him. ]\Ir. ^Macmillan 
says that he has but one things in his 
life to be proud of, and that he is the son of his father. 
Judge J. H. Macmillan, Sr., was for many years leader 
of the Democratic party in Nevada, and a man of power ; 
he was an attorney who occupied the front rank in his 
profession, but was also interested in mining, so his son 
inherited his taste for it. 

Harry Macmillan was born in Unionville, a mining 
camp of early days, sixty miles from the present camp 
of Rosebud. He is a reformed newspaper man. He was 
news editor of the Anaconda Standard in Montana for 
several years and edited the 'first Goldfield daily paper. 
Before long his mining interests became so heavy it w'as 
necessary for him to leave the paper. 

He and his associates now control the Chipmunk Gold- 
mining Company, of Manhattan ; the Original Green- 
water Gold Mining Company ; the Mohawk Jumbo Lease 
Company of Goldfield, and the Mohawk Kewana Lease 
Company of Goldfield. 

The pronounced success of The J. H. ^Macmillan Co. 
promotions and the Mohawk Jumbo Lease Company, one 
of the heaviest producers of the Goldfield District, has 
been most gratifying to all who have been connected with 
it. The leasers struck high grade ore on March 17, 1907, 
and the mine has continued a production of $250,000 a 
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George B. Holleran in the organization known as The 
J. H. ^lacmillan Company and the Alohavvk-Jumbo Lease 
Company, and is interested with ]\Ialcohii L. Alacdonald 
in various mining adventures. 

Mr. Alacmillan is one of the most successful young 
business men in Nevada. He has the biggest heart im- 
aginable, the kindest smile, the most cordial handclasp, 
and the greatest capacity for finding little things to do to 
make other people happy. His "streak of Yellow Jour- 
nalism," as his friends call his big touring car, is al- 
ways in use where it will give most pleasure. 

It was in February. 1905, that Harry Macmillan first 
arrived in Goldfield, and at that time he had little thought 
for anything but newspaper \\ork, though a thorough 
knowledge of mining gained in his boyhood days served 
him well when he finally determined to devote all his 
attention to the search for the magic metal. There are 
none who begrudge Harry Alacmillan the success which 
he has earned. He did much to spread the good tidings 
about the camp when it was a very young infant, and since 
he has gone out of the newspaper field he has not for- 
gotten the boosting habit. "The old adage, "Truth is 
stranger than fiction" has always been his policy concern- 
ing Goldfield, and he believes that the best thing which 
can be done for Nevada is to tell the truth about her 
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GEORGE B. HOLLERAN 



BOUT twelve years ago in an Idaho 
town a group of young men were gath- 
ered around a table in a German raths- 
keller winding up a busy day with a lit- 
tle jollification. Two old prospectors, 
tired and cold and penniless, walked 
into the place and dropped their packs on the floor. They 
stood in one corner of the roomi alone and looked de- 
cidedly down on their luck. 

One young fellow noticing their dejected and w^orn 
faces offered a cheery greeting to them to join the party. 
He did not guess that invitation would change the whole 
course of his life work, but such was the case. George 
B. Holleran from that day became a miner. So touched 
were the men by the cordial greeting at a time when 
the whole world seemed to be trying to see how hard it 
could kick them, that they became fast friends of Mr. 
Holleran. He was in the government land office at that 
time, and he began his mining operations from that point 
at first, but later gave up all other work to devote his at- 
tention to the ever fascinating search for gold. 

He mined in various parts of Idaho for several years, 
and when he came to Goldfield it was to look after som'^' 
interests acquired while still in Idaho. In payment of a 
debt he received the lease on the Mohawk-Jumbo, which 
has since made a fortune for himself and Harry McMil- 
lan of the J. H. McMillan Company, and the two men 
became partners. Mr. Macrnillan says that the heavy 
product and excellent returns of this lease are due entirely 
to the management of George B. Holleran, who with 
Superintendent Bob Dooley made it possible for the lease 
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HERE are few men who know the actual 
hardships of pioneer Hfe in a mining 
camp as does the camp physician. He 
fights every form of disease under con- 
ditions that are almost impossible to 
combat . 

Dr. Delos Ashley Turner went to Goldfield with the 
vanguard. He opened an office in a tent and from there 
he traveled all over the southern section of the district 
to bring help to sick miners and their families. He has 
ridden on horseback over sixty miles many a night to 
save some sick prospector. He is a young man in love 
with his work, full of energy ; possessed of a big heart, 
of frank, blunt nature which has made him some enemies 
and won him more friends than any one in camp, and 
six feet five inches of stature. 

The son of a Nevada pioneer, he was born in Pioche, 
Lincoln County, December 9, 1878. 

His boyhood days were spent in that old mining camp 
and from there he went to the University of Illinois, 
where he graduated in 1901. He became railroad sur- 
geon for the Oregon Short Line for a brief time and 
later surgeon for the Salt Lake Road with jurisdiction 
over Utah and Nevada. He has been County Physician 
since December, 1904, and has had charge of the County 
Hospital since that was organized. In February, 1905. 
he was made District Health Officer, and upon organiza- 
tion of the County Board of Health, he became its presi- 
dent. 

All the time he has been engaged in practicing Dr. 
Turner has been interested in mining, and many a pros- 
pector has looked to him for a grubstake. 





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T AIAY be a far cry from the practice 
of medicine to the successful operation 
of large mining properties, but Dr. W. 
K. Robinson has taken the step with a 
leap and a bound, and he has landed on 
level ground. "Little Florence" Robin- 
son, as the big doctor has been called by his friends since 
the Little Florence Lease has been turning out a fortune 
for him, had no intention of becoming a miner a few 
vears ago. He was born in Baltimore in 1870, and was 
graduated from the Maryland University, later doing 
post-graduate work in Johns Hopkins. The practice of 
his profession led him to Denver, and like most of the 
other men who go into a mining country, he had not been 
long there before he became interested in ore properties 
all over Colorado. From Denver he came to Goldfield 
early in the spring of 1905, and for a brief time it was to 
medicine that the doctor devoted all his energy. Here, 
as in Colorado, the thought of the golden treasure hidden 
in the hills lured him to the search for it, and he turned 
his attention to leasing. With George Vickers as his 
associate he secured a lease from Tom Lockhart on Flor- 
ence ground and organized the Little Florence Mining 
Company, of which he is vice-president and manager with 
Mr. Vjckers. This property has been producing $100,000 
a week. Day and night 150 men have been working 
underground and the leasers' record has been one that 
will long be remembered in the history of Nevada. Dr. 
Robinson is also president of the Victor Wonder Com- 
panv at Wonder, Nevada, and was organizer of the Mo- 
hawk Florence Company and the Iron Cap in the Monte- 
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OLDFIELD'S five hundred residents in 
August, 1904, remember an animal re- 
sembling a horse, harnessed to a rough 
wooden cart with ropes and bailing 
wire, and driven by a genial man with a 
kindly smile fringed with gray whisk- 
ers and a head not overstocked with hair. The man 
came among them unheralded, set up his little tent and 
went to work. Each morning he started ofif over the hills 
and each evening he returned to cook his potatoes. Some 
wit noticing his beard called him "Dad." and "Dad"' he 
has remained ever since. Clark is his name and W. H. 
were his initials which served to identify him in Colo- 
rado, Idaho and Utah where he mined for twenty years 
before coming to Goldfield. In Goldfield they will have 
nothing but "Dad" Clark. 

That was three years ago. Today, the little old cart 
is not. and the tent and the whiskers have also been rele- 
gated to the resting place of antiquities. 

The erstwhile owner of them is considered one of the 
most prominent operators of the state. He has made 
money ever since his first day in the sagebrush land. 
With some of the very best properties in the district his 
name is identified, and his run of good luck has been long 
and strong. 

Mr. Clark believes that the man who mines must take 
the gambler's chance. He plays for high stakes and 
works on the theory that for every success there must be 
many failures. He was born in Tekamah, Nebraska, in 
1862 and his boyhood days were spent in that section of 
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L. L. PATRICK 

HE story of the purchase of the famous 
Combination Mine and the story of the 
advent of L. L. Patrick into Goldfield 
are one and the same — a story that only 
a second Goldfield could duplicate. 
It was in 1902 that L. L. Patrick 
first set foot on Nevada soil, landing in Tonopah almost 
at the beginning of the excitement there, later going to 
Goldfield with the makers of the camp. On October 9, 
1904, Mr. 'Patrick secured an option on the Combination 
Mine from Al Myers, T. D. Murphy and Harry Ram- 
sey. The Chicago backers were slow putting up their 
money, and in the meantime Mr. Patrick went to George 
Wingfield and T. L. Oddie and made an arrangement 
by which they were to take it up. Another person learn- 
ing the value of the mine, approached both these men 
with a proposition to cut the wires and throw the option 
into their hands. They refused, and one hour before the 
money was due the first $5000 arrived. Within thirty 
days enough ore had been taken out to pay the full $75,- 
0(X>; to set $80,000 aside for development and to pay 
the first dividend. Since then the mine has paid $1,000- 
000 in dividends, and when sold to the Consolidated 
brought $5,000,000. 

L. L. Patrick, who was born in St. Louis, brought to 
Nevada an education gained in the Washington Univer- 
sity and School of Mines, supplemented by much active 
mining experience. 

He has been prominent from the start in the develop- 
ment of Goldfield, and today is interested in the Bullfrog 
National P.ank, Diamondfield Black Butte, Consolidated 
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MILTON M. DETCH 




VERYBODY boost ; nobody knock, has 
been the motto of CToldfield from the day 
of its inception, and a prince of boosters 
is Mihon JM. Detch, of the law firm O'f 
Detch & Carney. There has not been 
a single movement for the betterment of 
the camp and its interests in which Milton Detch has not 
played a part, and in most of them he has been the leader. 
He came to Goldfield from Colorado in the early days of 
the camp, opened his ofhce in a tent, used a cracker box 
for a chair, fried his bacon on a sheet-iron camp stove 
over a bunch of sagebrush, and washed his tin cup as did 
the other men of the time. 

There had not long been mines in Goldfield before ther'.' 
came litigation, and Milton Detch and his partner, Pat 
Carney, were early on hand to do their share in settling 
the disputes. Mr. Detch started the Goldfield Board 
of Trade, which later became the Goldfield Chamber of 
Commerce, and was one of the originators of the Gold- 
field Mining Stock Exchange. When social life became 
a necessity for the men of the camp he helped to bring 
them together to form the Montezuma Club, which is 
now known from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He was one 
of those who took a prominent part in forming the Gold- 
field Volunteer Fire Department, which has many times 
saved the town from destruction. Nature seems to have 
endowed him with a capacity for organizing and direct- 
ing the afifairs of men. and he has brought a large amount 
of money into the camp for investment. He is accounted 
by all a jollv good fellow, and visitors from all parts of 





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NT(J the state on a brakebeam, and out 
again in a big touring car gives the entre 
and exit of Henry Weber. It only hints 
at all that must have passed in the in- 
terim, nor would a dozen"! pages of 
"Who's Who" suffice to tell the whole 
truth. Since then Henry W^eber has written the name of 
Goldfield upon the Atlantic coast and upon the Pacific, 
and he has left a trail of Boosters for Nevada, all across 
the continent. He is one of the men who has helped 
to place the camp on the map in letters of gold, and he 
will help to keep her there. 

It was in the early days of Goldfield that he came with 
the first big rush from Tonopah. He had in the few 
years of his life done almost everything that a self-re- 
specting, adventurous and energetic young man could do, 
so the life on the desert was no new thing to him. He 
saw a great field of opportunities before him, and he 
stretched out his hand and gathered them in. In the 
early days he was associated with Marvin Ish and later 
promoted several successes for himself — witness thereof, 
the Atlanta, Goldfield Oro, Great Bend Annex, and many 
others. Henry W^eber was born in Wisconsin, and has 
tried the mining game in nearly every state in the West. 
Today his interests are not confined to Goldfield, but are 
scattered in every direction. He is an energetic young 
man with a personality that makes friends rapidly, and 
wins the confidence of business associates. 





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J. F. DOUGLAS 

RO^IINENT amoncr the factors which 
change a sagebrush waste into a hus- 
thng, busthng mining city, is the hotel 
man. Some men are born successful 
hotel men. and others are made so by 
long years of experience, but J. F. 
Douglas, lawyer, miner, manager of the new Goldfield 
hotel, and one of the most popular fellows in camp, be- 
came a hotel man by chance. 

Mr. Douglas was born in Franktown, Nev. He re- 
ceived his college education at Berkeley, read law in Cali' 
fornia, and in the winter of 1905 came to Goldfield and 
began the practice of his profession. 

When the old Goldfield hotel became involved in Feb- 
ruary, 1906, Mr. Douglas was attorney for the bank 
to which the hotel company was in debt. He bought the 
hotel himself, and managed it with much success until the 
following November when it was reduced to ruin by fire. 

The fire only served to stimulate Mr. Douglas to 
larger efiforts and he interested seven capitalists in a plan 
to build a hotel to cost not less than a quarter of a million 
dollars. Work on this building was begun December i, 
1906, and the opening date was set for Christmas day of 
the following year. 

The hotel is built of stone and brick, four stories high, 
and has two hundred rooms. The furniture was pur- 
chased in Chicago at a cost of $40,000. The house is 
provided with all the modern conveniences to be found 
in a hotel on Broadway, New York, and is considered 
one of the marvels of the desert. 

The young hotel manager is a member of the law firm 
of Pyne & Douglas, and is also secretary and treasurer 
of the Combination Fraction Mining Company. 



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J. C. McCORMACK 

EAVING Boulder, Colorado, and a com- 
fortable home in the midst of pleasant 
scenes, and surrounded by loyal friends, 
but bringing with him an extensive and 
successful mining experience gained in 
Cripple Creek, Mexico, and other 
places, J. C. McCormack joined the pioneer colony at 
Goldfield while the town was yet in the primeval state. 

His transplanted success began almost immediately to 
bring forth fruit. Those were the days in which trans- 
actions, involving thousands, were made 'twixt morn 
and noon, but he had been in mining camps before, in 
the heyday of their beginning, and understood the value 
of time. 

Having quickly made his place as a mining man se- 
cure in Goldfield, when, in a few weeks the discoveries 
at Rhyolite beckoned the argonauts of fortune to come 
on, he was in the rush and secured by purchase some of 
the most valuable properties there. 

With the galvanizing into new life of Nevada, and the 
rich discoveries in many places, he worked fast, and with 
unerring judgment, and became interested in nearly all 
of the new camps of the state, including Goldfield, Rhyo- 
lite, Transvaal, Gold Mountain, Ramsay, and Fairview. 

Mr. McCormack was to the manner born, and is by 
instinct and training, a mine worker, and a captain of 
men ; commanding in appearance and easily a leader 
among his fellows ; splendid in executive ability, he ob- 
tains the hearty good-will of the men employed. A suite 
of offices are maintained in the Nixon building, at Gold- 
field. His home on Crook street, is one of simple ele- 
gance and genial hospitality. 



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IpHE man who discovered Goldfield is 
Harry Stimler. No more interesting 
story can be imagined than that of this 
young seeker of fortune. He was born 
in Belmont less than thirty years ago, 
and to date his life has been spent along 
the frontier. He was one of the first men in Tonopah 
when the rush to that camp began, and realizing that food 
probably would be scarce he hauled overland a big wagon- 
load of provisions. This he distributed to the hungry 
miners. If they could pay, well and good ; if not, they 
were fed anyway. He staked a number of claims, pros- 
pected, dug with pick, suffered with the rest, but always 
there remained with him the determination to win. As 
Tonopah expanded he believed there was wealth to the 
south. Accompanied by William Marsh, he started for 
the land of promise and camped on the side of Colum- 
bia Mountain. From the rich outcroppings they saw, the 
men judged there must be wealth untold. The Sandstorm 
Mine is the result. Harry Stimler collected some sam- 
ples, had them assayed in Tonopah, and the report con- 
firmed his early judgment. In December, 1902, he staked 
the Sandstorm, May Queen, Nevada Boy and Columbia 
Mountain. 

From that time until today Harry Stimler has been one 
of the most indefatigable workers in Nevada. His opera- 
tions have been extended to other sections and his finan- 
cial returns have been large. A less energetic man would 
have given up in despair before the obstacles that have 
confronted him. 






B. HIGGIXSON, partner of Harry 
Stimler's in the firm of Stimler & Hig- 
ginson. broRers and promoters, is from 
Missouri, originally. Being a native of 
the "show me" state he has something 
of that element in his character, but 
while willing to be "shown" at all times, he has been even 
more successful in "showing" others how fortunes are 
made in Nevada. He is essentially a miner. His experi- 
ence has been wide and varied and he knows the mineral 
belts of the western country as well as any man. He is 
a pioneer in the Goldfield and Tonopah districts, and has 
located and developed many rich claims. He was in Dela- 
amar at the time of the rush to Tonopah, and came in a 
hurry when he heard the news. After the discovery of 
Goldfield he was soon on the ground and staked part of 
the Jumbo Extension, Gold Bar. Simerone. A'ernal, Black 
Butte, and other promising claims. 

His extensive interests in many rich groups have 
brought him wealth and fame, and he has made it possi- 
ble for others to reap a golden harvest. 

The firm of Stimler & Higginson has been back of 
some of the fine properties in the state. Associated with 
them at various times have been notable figures in the 
development of Nevada, among t'hem James L. Butler, 
discoverer of the Tonopah mines, and J. C. HumphrcN, 
discoverer of Manhattan. 

The firm's interests have extended over the greater 
part of the southern end of the state : Goldfield, Man- 
hattan, Bullfrog, Tonopah, Palmetto, Silver Peak, Kawich 
Mountains, Wild Horse, Death Valley Milletts, and Clif- 
ford. 



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A. A. CODD 





OLDFIELD'S wonderful growth from 
a struggling mining camp to a city has 
not been at the expense of the cause of 
education. Here has been built up a 
system of schools the equal of any in 
other towns of its size, and this is due 
in great part to one man, A. A. Codd, deputy district 
mining recorder, prominent broker, and clerk of the 
board of education. It is not in educational work alone 
that Mr. Codd's influence for good has been felt in Gold- 
field, but in all lines of action that make for the better- 
ment of the community. 

Mr. Codd is a native son of California, and spent the 
early part of his life in the land of oranges, attending 
the public schools of Riverside and later taking a thor- 
ough business course in Stockton. From 1900 to 1904 
he was head cashier for the San Francisco branch of 
Studebaker Bros, manufacturing company. 

His advent into Goldfield was made late in 1904 upon 
the invitation of his old friend and college chum, Claude 
M. Smith, who had been the district mining recorder of 
the Goldfield district since its organization in 1903. Mr. 
Codd was appointed chief deputy and since that time he 
has been the deputy district mining recorder of Gold- 
field, the largest mining district in the United States. 
During the years 1904-5 fifty to seventy-five location 
certificates a day were not unusual records. He is one 
of the most reliable brokers of Goldfield. 

Mr. Codd was married to Miss Susan R. Patterson, 
of Stockton, in 1897, and their cosy Goldfield home is the 
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JOHN TILTON DONNELLAN 

HE eastern tenderfoot who comes West 
expecting to find in the mining camps 
httle civilization and few men of educa- 
tion has a surprise in store for him. 
There is no city in America of the same 
size as Goldfield or Tonopah which has 



so many college-bred men, and the marvelous growth of 
all the mining camps of Southern Nevada is a good argu- 
ment in favor of a college education. That a man is better 
and more efficient with a college education than he 
would be without it seems to be proved by the efficiency 
of Goldfield citizens, where the college men are among 
the leaders in everything. 

John Donncllan, a Harvard graduate with the class of 
'93, is typical of this class. He brought with him to Gold- 
field a trained mind and athletic physique and a conse- 
quent amount of energy and a determination to succeed. 
In Salt Lake, where he lived for a time after his gradu- 
ation, he was in the brokerage business, and it was natural 
that he should take up the same line of work in Gold- 
field. He opened a brokerage office, installed a private 
wire between Goldfield and San Francisco, and soon had 
a very large following. He promoted the Golden Sceptre 
Mining Company, the St. Ives and several other proper- 
ties of well known reputation. He and his associate, J. C. 
Robertson, formerly of Norfolk, Virginia, are also inter- 
ested in Fairview, Wonder, Yerington, Round Mountain 
and Ramsey. They let no opportunity pass to gain a 
good property, and their success has resulted in their gain- 
ing the confidence of those who have had deals with them. 

John Donnellan is one of the most popular men in 
Goldfield. He is a big, manly fellow, loved and honored 
by his associates. 






Who's Who in Nevada 



WALTER CORBALEY STONE 



ALTER STOXE is considerable of a 
hustler. This may be due in part to 
some of his early experiences in Gold- 
field. Before his achievements are re- 
lated it is fitting- to tell of his entrv to 
Goldfield and what befell him on his 
arrival. In 1904 he took a trip to Tonopah during his 
vacation. He decided to go on to Goldfield, but as the 
stage bookings were all filled weeks ahead, there was noth- 
ing to do but walk, which he did. He piled his blankets on 
a freight wagon and "hiked." When hd reached the 
townsite of Goldfield he cut away the sagebrush and 
pitched his tent. Along came one of the future industries 
of the town looking for a site, and Mr. Stone obligingly 
moved his tent to another location, again cut away the 
sagebrush and pitched his canvas. Came another enter- 
prise looking for a location, Mr. Stone moved. Again 
he pitched his tent, and again he moved out of the path 
of progress. After the fourth attempt to find a camping 
place in the town, he said, "Me for the hilltops," and be- 
took himself to the heights. But by some chance along 
came the water company and decided that Stone's loca- 
tion on the hill was the best place in that part of the 
country for a water tank. Always obliging, he moved 
again and thereafter was left in peace. 

After leaving the hill he bought a lot on the main street 
of Goldfield and erected a building. He went into the 
mercantile business, opening the Exploration Mercantile 
Company, which he still controls. One of his first min- 
ing ventures was to secure a controlling interest in the 
Kalfus Lease. He is an Elk and a Shriner and a prince 
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WEBB H. PARKINSON 

NERGETIC young brokers have done 
much to make Goklfield the best known 
mining camp in the world today. 
Among these are few more energetic 
than Webb H. Parkinson, who is the 
Gokltield Investment Company. Webb 
Parkinson came to Goldfiekl first in 1904, and at that 
time the pick and the pan were his implements of trade. 
He came on a prospecting trip and had little idea of en- 
tering the brokerage business. He was born in Fort 
Worth, Texas, but spent his boyhood days in Colorado, 
so he was early associated with mining. While he was 
too young to work, he watched the miners and listened to 
their gold-hunting stories. When he was fifteen he went 
into the mines and he worked through Colorado, ^^^■om- 
ing and New Mexico until he went to Goldfiekl. 

In the fall of 1905 he decided to give up manual labor, 
and looked around for a wedge by which he might break 
into the brokerage business. The Goldfield Investment 
Company was the result, and though in the beginning Mr. 
Parkinson was not the whole company he soon became 
so. He is one of the most energetic traders on the ex- 
change and he has been one of the combatants in many 
memorable word battles on the floor. 

He holds the controlling interest in the Florence Ex- 
tension, Black Butte Extension. Black Butte Bonanza, 
Goldfield [Midnight Pawnee, the Ruby Gold Mining Com- 
pany, and the George Washington. He has branch of- 
fices in San Francisco, Stockton, Chicago, Los Angeles 
and Xew York. He is a director in the Goldfield Mining 
Stock Exchange and also holds a seat on the San Fran- 
cisco Exchange. 



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HE wanderlust that drives soldiers of 
fortune across the seven seas and to the 
far corners of the earth, not infrequently 
directs them to Nevada, the land of 
promise — and fulfillment. To this fact 
Harry W. Boyer, of the firm of Boyer, 
Thomas & Co., can bear witness. The story of his travels 
before he came to Goldfield is a recital of ups and downs 
in a manly struggle for success that might well adorn a 
fiction page. 

An Ohioan, born in Bryan, Williams County, July 2, 
1862, Mr. Boyer graduated from high school and normal 
college before he went to Leadville, Colo., in 1880. He 
clerked for a year in a general merchandise store and a 
year later went to New Mexico, where he be;^an min- 
ing. Florida called /him in 1885, and with his part- 
ner he bought a big orange plantation and other 
extensive holdings. Frosts in 1886-7 iiijured crops and 
decreased the value of all real estate. Realizing- what he 
could on his property he resumed mining with varying 
success in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, being located 
in the Coeur d'Alene district for eight years. Longing 
again for the West, he went direct to Old Mexico. 

Five years later the rush to Tonopah and Goldfield 
acted as a call of the wild and summoned him from the 
land of the Montezumas. He reached Goldfield in Aug- 
ust, 1904, 

Mr. Boyer owns mining properties in Yerington. Lun- 
ing, Bullfrog District, Greenwater, Lida. Silver Peak, and 
last but by no means least in Goldfield and the immediate 
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EVADA, as a gold producer, has a 
world-wide reputation. This is due in 
great part to enterprising men who have 
proclaimed far and wide the opportuni- 
ties for investment in this state. A man 
who believes thoroughly in Nevada and 
its possibilities is Evans Whitcomb Thomas, of Boyer, 
Thomas & Co. 

Air. Thomas originally came from the East as did many 
others quick to see the advantages of the West. He 
was born in Dixon. Illinois, March 19, i860, and was 
graduated from the University of Illinois in 1882. From 
1884 to i8qi Mr. Thomas held positions as cashier or 
president of national banks in South Dakota, Texas and 
Louisiana. The East called him later, and he traveled 
between London and New York from 1891 to 1894, being 
connected with big banking houses in the two great cities. 
He was appointed commissioner to the Paris Exposition 
in 1889, and from 1899 to 1906 he was in the banking 
and brokerage business in Philadelphia. 

Fitted by such an active career for big undertakings, 
Mr. Thomas came to Reno. Nev., in November, 1902. 
From there he journeyed through Carson City, Haw- 
thorne, and Candelaria to Silver Peak, arriving in Gold- 
field May, 1906. He was married in July, 1901. to Miss 
Helene Lucas, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Mr. Thomas is 
interested in properties at Lida, Silver Peak, Yerington 
and other sections. The firm has offices in New York, 
Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. 
Goldfield. and close connections with European cap- 
italists. 






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H. B. LIND 



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EN come to Goldfield for many things. 
Lawyers come ostensibly for the prac- 
tice of their profession, but sooner or 
later catch the gold fever and thereafter 
there is little but mining for them. 
H. B. Lind is such a man. Mr. Lind 
came to Goldfield equipped for the practice of law. He 
studied in Lake Forest University in Illinois, and prac- 
ticed actively for six years in Chicago. When he ar- 
rived in Goldfield in the pioneer days he came with the 
intention of continuing in his profession, but he soon took 
down his shingle and began to take advantage of the op- 
portunities around him in the mining world. Since that 
time to the credit of his name as a mining man and the 
gratification of his purse, numerous successful mining 
deals have been promoted by him. 

As organizer of the General Extension Mining Com- 
pany, with I lo acres of well situated claims, he made his 
first great mark. He organized and promoted the Vernal 
Mining Company of Goldfield, and later the Nevada Hills 
Extension Mining Company, a property adjoining the 
famous Nevada Hills Mine in the Fairview District. In 
the Rosebud Mining District, the Ubehebe Copper District 
and various others of the bonanza camps of Nevada he 
has large interests. 

In the social and business life of the camp, Mr. Lind 
has been active since his arrival. 

Always energetic, always full of faith in the camp, and 
always ready to do his part in helping along any work 
for the betterment of the community, Mr. Lind is recog- 
nized as a man whom Goldfield could not well do with- 
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CHARLES R. MURDOCK 




HARLES R. ^lURDOCK, mining- en- 
gineer, speculator and mine operator, 
was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and 
graduated from Knox College with the 
class of "88. From there he went to 
California, where he entered a mining 
school. To gain practical experience, he worked as a 
miner for some of the big corporations of Butte, Nevada, 
Idaho and Colorado, but as the ambitious man can not 
work long for others, and work with contentment, he 
soon branched away from day labor and cast his lot with 
the men of the pick, who haunt the desert in their search 
for gold. 

He arrived in Goldfield when that camp was a promis- 
ing prospect. From the beginning his operations prove^l 
successful and he soon became associated wath several 
of the men who have since become the most prominent 
operators of the state. When the Nevada Hills Invest- 
ment Company was formed for the purpose of buying 
good prospects and investing in substantial stocks, Mr. 
Murdock was appointed manager. This company has 
enjoyed a remarkable success. One large dividend has 
already been paid and the company holds sufficient stocks 
at the present time to pay a second, and leave a balance 
in the treasury sufficient for exploration and purchase 
of properties. 

Mr. Murdock has an intimate acquaintance with every 
mining camp in Nevada. Many rare opportunities pre- 
sent themselves to those who are informed regarding the 
intrinsic value of the mines and his successful specula- 
tions and investments would indicate that he has not 
been slow to grasp them. 




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HAROLD BAXTER 

HEN a young man realizes his educa- 
tion has only begun after he receives 
his classical and technical degrees, there 
is some hope for him. Desert "rats" 
usually smile at the superior knowledge 
of the youth armed with a "sheep-skin" 
who comes into Nevada to show the old-timers just where 
the gold is to be found and how it is to be removed and 
converted into coin. Therefore, when the exception 
comes along and admits he has something to learn it is as 
refreshing as an oasis. 

Harold Baxter, a clever mining engineer, says he did 
not consider his education by any means complete when 
he was graduated from the Columbia University School 
of Mines. He began his active career willing to learn 
anything and everything he could from any and every 
source. Consequently he succeeded, and he is now con- 
sulting engineer for the Loftus & Davis companies. He. 
was born in Denver, and some of his earliest work was 
in the newspaper business. He soon reformed and began 
engineering and mining. He opened a mining and engin- 
eering office in Goldfield soon after arriving there in 
December, 1906. It was not long before his superior 
abilities were recognized by Loftus & Davis, and he be- 
came connected with that firm. He is admitted to be an 
authority in his profession. 

He is one of the busiest engineers in the district. His 
work keeps him almost constantly traveling from one 
property to another examining, estimating, and reporting 
on the possibilities of each. 

Mr. Baxter is a young man of high ideals and has an 
advanced standard of professional and practical ethics. 




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FRED J. SIEBERT 

ROWN-UP Tonopah still talks of a 
memorable June day nearly six years 
ago when the infant Tonopah opened its 
eyes to behold a big Winton automobile 
come chugging into its tented precincts. 
Came with it also Fred J. Siebert, who 
was soon to be known as one of the most energetic of the 
young mining engineers of Southern Nevada. At that 
particular time it was the car which attracted the most 
attention, for it was the first machine that had ever braved 
the desert sand and sagebrush. Little did the people who 
turned out to witness this novel spectacle realize what an 
important part the machine was to play in the develop- 
ment of the state. 

Fred Siebert was mining in Utah when the excitement 
in Tonopah occurred, and he went to Tonopah as the su- 
perintendent of the Tonopah & Salt Lake Company. Two 
months after his arrival, which was early in igoi, he took 
charge of the property of the famous Tonopah Mining 
Company and later had under his supervision the Belmont 
and the Jim Butler. Until March, 1904, he remained in 
Tonopah, at which time he went to Los Angeles to live. 
Recently he again answered the call of the desert and 
cast his lot in Goldfield, where he has already made a 
place for himself in the front rank of his profession. Mr. 
Siebert was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 14, 1874, and 
was graduated from the Ohio State University with the 
class of 95, receiving degrees in the mining and electrical 
engineering departments. His first visit to Nevada was 
made in 1897, when he went to Austin to operate a lease 
mine. 






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RUFUS C. THAYER 




HE population of Goldfield is becoming' 
decidedly cosmopolitan. Where a few 
years ago were to be seen canvas tents, 
the only buildings, and rugged pros- 
pectors, hardened and tanned by the 
desert wind, the only residents of the 
camp, now there are massive blocks, honey-combed with 
elaborately furnished offices, and occupied by men gath- 
ered from almost every vocation. 

Among the scholarly, courtly, gentle-mannered men of 
Goldfield is Rufus C. Thayer, who cast his lot with Ne- 
vada and is one of the leaders of the legal fraternity. ^Nlr. 
Thayer is a native of Michigan, born in Northville, Jan- 
uary 25, 1868. He was graduated from the University 
of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1891 and soon afterward 
became principal of a high school at Manistee 

He went to Colorado Springs and began the practice of 
law, having been admitted to the bar of Michigan before 
he left that state. It was the desire to expound and prac- 
tice mining law that led him to come to Nevada. In 
Colorado his firm had enjoyed an extensive practice and 
was engaged in most of the important mining litigation 
of Cripple Creek. The firm of Thayer & Steele has offices 
in the Registration Trust Company's new building in 
Goldfield. Mr. Thayer has traveled much. He is a 
member of the American Bar Association, the Denver 
Club, the El Paso Club of Colorado Springs, the Chey- 
enne Mountain Country Club, and the California and 
Jonathan Clubs in Los Angeles. He is not of the bom- 
bastic type, but a quiet, courteous American gentleman. 






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GILBERT STANTON JOHNSON 



ILBERT STANTON JOHNSON, a 
successful mining broker of Goldfield, 
is one of the youngest men prominent in 
the business hfe of Nevada. And even 
at that he is no new arrival for he cast 
his lot with Goldfield in 1904. His cap- 





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ital consisted principally of a determination to succeed. 

However, if the earlier life of this clever young man 
is sketched briefly it may bring forth an explanation of 
why he was destined to succeed in later years. He was 
born in Brighton, Iowa, in 1882. When he was nine 
years of age his parents moved into the country. Not 
daunted by the lack of educational facilities the boy im- 
proved his mind by hard study and extensive reading. 
He borrowed enough money to pay for a course in ste- 
nography and typewriting at a Des Moines college, and 
when he had completed this, went to Chicago, securing 
employment w^ith a manufacturing company and later with 
a big advertising agency. 

Such perseverance and pluck were not to go long un- 
rewarded. Coming to Goldfield he opened a brokerage 
business and from his typewriter there issued a weekly 
market letter. His has grown into a business that ex- 
tends throughout the United States, Mexico. Canada, and 
foreign countries. He is secretary-treasurer and general 
manager of the Bullfrog West Extension Mming Com- 
pany and owns a controlling interest in the Manhattan- 
Whale Mining and Milling Company, and is interested in 
other important properties, including the Cuprite Copper 
Mining Company and others at Round Mountain, Fair- 
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LESLIE LORING SAVAGE 

HE age is the youno- man's age. Nevada 
is the young man's country ; Goldfield 
is the young man's camp. In every hne 
of the camp's activities it is the young 
man who is forging to the front. Young 
men are the heaviest traders on the 
stock exchanges ; young men are the promoters ; voung 
men are the miners, the lawyers, the doctors, the mer- 
chants, and the chief factors in every kind of business 
life. 

The youngest looking man in Goldfield is Leslie Lor- 
ing Savage, partner of Walter Whitmore, and secretary 
and treasurer of the W. H. Whitmore Company. His 
youthful appearance makes him the subject for many a 
would-be humorist, and he takes every joke with boyish 
good nature in a way that endears him to all his fellows. 
Savage was born in Oakland, California, September 6, 
1880. He was a member of the '04 class of the Colum- 
bia University School of ^Nlines, and he went to Ely early 
in that year in the employ of the Nevada Consoli- 
dated Copper Company. It was just at the time when 
opportunities were plentiful in Ely, when that cam]) was 
becoming known to the world, that Mr. Savage left the 
company he was with, and began prospecting for him- 
self. He secured some promising properties and dis- 
posed of them during the boom. When he arrived in 
Goldfield, he met Walter Whitmore, bought an interest 
in the firm, and has since been sharing the labor and the 
profits of one of the most successful brokerage, insur- 
ance, and operating firms of the camp. 






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ALDEN H. BROWN 

OME men learn mining lore in their 
cradles at a time when fairy tales are 
usually considered the only digestible 
food for childish brains. They grow- 
up with love of the miner's life planted 

in their hearts and bred into their 

bones. They could not get away from it if they tried. 

Alden H. Brown was the son of a miner — one of the 
immortals of '49, whom all sons of California love to 
honor. He crossed the plains into California with the first 
rush and went through the state in which his son is now 
mining. He was placer mining on the Comstock 
before the great silver lode was discovered. It was in 
Viinton, Iowa, far from the land of gold that Alden 
Brown was born in 1869. From the start he was destined 
to be a miner. When he went to college he determined 
to be a civil engineer, and he was given that degree in the 
University of Iowa. As a civil engineer he built part of 
what is now the Rock Island Railroad, but after a few 
years of this work the longing for the mines became too 
strong for him and he went to Colorado to take up the 
profession of his father before him. He had mined in 
Alabama, Alexico and Colorado before going to Nevada. 
The winter of 1904 found him in Goldfield and since then 
he has had an active career in the Southwest. He has 
large interests in Lower California. 

Mr. Brown is a big, handsome man, a lover of the 
rough out-door life, and a true gentleman. He has the 
spirit of the adventurer, and his wanderings have shown 
him many sides of life. Mr. Brown now has an office 
in Goldfield and one at 625 I. W. Hellman Block, Los 
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three years he has been in camp has handled many im- 
portant deals. He is the head of the firm of H. D. Mac- 
Master & Company, which has a reputation not bounded 
by the borders of the state. 

Mr. MacMaster has interests in quite a number of live 
districts, notable among them being Goldfield, Yerring- 
ton, Fairview and Manhattan. One of his latest invest- 
ments is in the Virgen River Oil Fields in Utah. From 
this property he has an excellent chance to add materially 
to his fortune. He has promoted the Goldfield-Rochester 
Mining Company, that gives promise of being something 
beyond the ordinary in productiveness. Mr. MacMaster 
holds a seat on the Goldfied Mining Stock Exchange and 
is prominent in its affairs. He wooed and won a charm- 
ing woman for his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. MacMaster 
have a pretty little home in Goldfield. Mr. MacMaster is 
also well known in Los Angeles, where he and his wife 
make frequent visits. 

His offices occupy a handsome suite in the new Ex- 
change Building on Main Street in Goldfield. 



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C. O. WHITTEMORE 

OMEONE has said that the man who 
builds a railroad builds an empire. Be 
that as it may, what would Nevada be 
today without her railroads, and where 
would the railroads of Nevada be to- 
day without the keen-sighted, far-see- 
ing men who saw opportunities and forced others to be- 
lieve in them. 

C. O. Whittemore, vice-president and general counsel 
of the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad, is a man to whom 
Nevada owes much. He was the first official of the Las 
Vegas & Tonopah to go over the proposed route with the 
engineers, a year before the actual work of construction 
was begun, aside from being prominently identified with 
the building of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake, 
of which he was general counsel until recently, when he 
resigned to devote all his attention to the Las Vegas & 
Tonopah. 

To start at the beginning, Mr. Whittemore is a son of 
Utah, who became prominent in his own state before he 
transferred his allegiance to Nevada. He was born in 
1862, and was graduated from St. Mary's school twenty 
years later. He began the practice of law auspiciously. 
He was made assistant city attorney, but resigned to con- 
tinue his law education at Columbia. In 1894 he was 
elected county attorney, and in 1898 he was appointe<: 
United States District Attorney for LTtah by President 
McKinley. 

He has cast his lot with Nevada and its interests, and 
henceforth is to be classed as a thorough Nevadan, one 
who will have not a little to do with the future history of 
the State. 






CHARLES S. SPRAGUE 

E\'ADA needs no introduction to 
Charles S. Sprague ; first, he is a news- 
paper man, and the entire West knows 
him through the thriving journal he 
has built up in the midst of the desert ; 
and secondly Nevada knows and hon- 
ors him for what he has done to advance her interests 
and proclaim her greatness up and down the earth. He 
is a brilliant exception to the supposed rule that good 
newspaper men are poor business men. Mr. Sprague 
seems to have succeeded invariably. 

He was born in Ohio, the son of W. P. Sprague, for 
many years congressman from the Buckeye State. On 
the day of his graduation from college he purchased a 
newspaper, and he has been a newspaper man ever since. 
While in Ohio ,he became prominent in politics and was 
appointed internal revenue collector — the youngest man 
who ever held such a position in the State. In 1890 he 
went to Colorado and founded the Colorado Springs 
Evening Telegraph. It flourished, and he established 
the Mining Investor. He again took an active part in 
political affairs, served in the Legislature and. as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Pardons. Many honors were his in 
Colorado. In 1904 and '05 he was editor of the 
Rocky Mountain News in Denver, resigning that position 
to buy the Goldfield News, a publication that has a larger 
circulation than any other in Nevada. He organized the 
Goldfield Publishing Company, which has erected a 
$100,000 office building, and is vice-president and general 
manager of the Company. He has mining interests 
throughout the State, and owns the finest home in Gold- 
field ; proving that Fortune sometimes smiles even on a 
newspaper man. 



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Y a judicious combination of mining 
and banking- some of the most success- 
ful men in the West have made their 
fortunes, and if perseverance, atten- 
tion to business, energy, ability,, and 
sound common sense count for aught, 
James L. Lindsay of Goldfield will be enrolled among the 
winners. 

Mr. Lindsay began his active career about twenty years 
ago when not more than a score of years had been his. 
He rose rapidly in the banking business, and has been so 
successful in this work that he has devoted by far the 
greater part of his time to it, occasionally becoming con- 
nected with some big mining enterprises just for variation 
and incidentally to add materially to his own bank ac- 
count. He was interested in several properties in Colo- 
rado before he decided that Goldfield and the other 
Nevada camps were the only places really worth while. 
Goldfield first saw Mr. Lindsay in 1905. He did not 
hesitate or procrastinate, but went to work with a will. 
He made his first good-sized Nevada stake on the Lind- 
say lease on the Florence. He again turned his attention 
to banking and accepted a position with the State Bank 
and Trust Company. Of this institution he is now the 





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FRED H. VAHRENKAMP 

HE first train ever sent over the Las Ve- 
gas & Tonopah road into Southern Ne- 
vada was booked for Bonnie Clare and 
loaded with machinery for the Bonnie 
Clare Mine. The day of its arrival was 
a happy one for Fred H. \^ahrenkamp, 
ch he never grows tired of thinking. It 
marked an epoch in the history of the mine and of its 
general manager. With the opening of the road, Los 
Angeles became the natural distributing center for the 
camps of Southern Nevada and the Los Angeles men who 
had invested in mines in the sagebrush state rejoiced. 
Most of all, rejoiced Fred Vahrenkamp. In the spring 
of 1905. when the railroad was little more than a myth, 
Fred Vahrenkamp, mining engineer, and Willis George 
Emerson of Los Angeles purchased the Bonnie Clare 
mine located in the Gold ^Mountain District, half wav be- 
tween Goldfield and Bullfrog. Mr. Vahrenkamp went 
immediately to work on the development of the property 
and in January, 1906, he and E. A. Forrester and sons, 
also of Los Angeles, purchased Mr. Emerson's interest. 
With a splendidly equipped mill on top of the ground 
and an apparently inexhaustible supply of milling ore 
under the ground, the property promises to be a million- 
aire maker. 

i\Ir. Vahrenkamp had made a record in his profession 
before Bonnie Clare was in existence. He has mined in 
Utah, Colorado, South Dakota and California, and was 
for some time in the employment of the De La Mar Svn- 
dicate of Paris. His professional associate in Los Angeles 
before going to Bonnie Clare was Prof. L. H. Mitchell, 
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LOREN B. CURTIS 

XE of the greatest factors in the trans- 
formation of Southern Nevada has been 
the Nevada-California Power Company. 
The construction and operation of this 
plant has meant not only light and trans- 
portation for all the prominent cities 




and camps of that section, but cheap power to operate the 
mines and mills as well. 

The man who originated the idea of establishing this 
great plant is Loren B. Curtis, of Denver, Colorado. In 
the Fall of 1904 Mr. Curtis and C. M. Hobbs, of Denver, 
came to Goldfield for the purpose of looking over the 
mining field, but Mr. Curtis had not long been in Gold- 
field before he saw the great necessity of cheap power for 
the mining needs of the camp. Mr. Curtis had already 
had wide experience in Colorado in the location of water 
power plants, and naturally his mind turned toward se- 
curing such a plant in a reasonable transmission distance 
of Goldfield. Leaving Air. Hobbs in Goldfield to con- 
tinue his investigations in the mining field, Mr. Curtis 
went into the Owens River country to look for a suitable 
water power site. After spending several weeks in ex- 
amining all the tributaries of the Owens River, he finally 
selected the present power rights on Bishop Creek, and 
made all the preliminary filings for holding them. He 
then returned to Goldfield and accompanied by Mr. Hobbs 
went to Colorado to lay the power proposition before a 
group of Denver's leading capitalists. 

The proposition seemed so feasible and so certain of 
large success that no trouble was encountered in raising 
all the necessary funds for the first installation, costing 
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Nine months after the work was started the plant was 
in operation and electric power was being furnished Gold- 
field and Tonopah. Mr. Curtis was the engineer in 
charge of construction of the transmission line of the 
company, from Bishop, California, to Tonopah and Gold- 
field, a distance of 113 miles. 

While working on this line ^Ir. Curtis found it neces- 
sary to secure water for construction purposes, and nat- 
urally his mind was called to the great need of good water 
for Goldfield. Upon the completion of his work he turn- 
ed his attention to securing by location and otherwise, all 
the water in the Goldfield District. The culmination of 
this work is now the Goldfield Consolidated Water Com- 
pany. This company is now furnishing pure mountain 
water to the inhabitants of Goldfield, and the surrounding 
district, and is considered one of the greatest factors in 
the upbuilding of the camp. Thus Ylr. Curtis has been 
the moving spirit in two of the most needful and success- 
ful enterprises of the Goldfield District. 

Mr. Curtis was born in 1869 in Binghampton, N. Y., 
but has spent most of his life in Colorado. He secured 
his technical education at the State Agricultural College 
of Colorado, taking the degree of B. S. in 1895. Since 
that time he has successfully practiced his profession in 
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MILTON C. ISH 




ANY who came to Goldfield primarily 
to mine, saw money in supplying- the 
needs of the people, and several of the 
men who are the most successful oper- 
ators today got their first stake by pro- 
viding bacon and beans for others. In 
the early days of Goldfield groceries were quite as much 
in demand as mines, and Milton Ish invested $350 in a 
lot on Columbia street, upon which he erected a frame 
building and opened a grocery store. That lot is today 
worth $15,000. Not infrequently a carload of goods was 
sold before it could be removed from the wagon to the 
store, and customers lined up on the sidewalk to make 
their purchases. In the spring of 1907 Mr. Ish and his 
uncle, Frank Ish, who was associated with him, sold the 
store that they might devote all their attention to mining. 
Mr. Ish had staked Jim Sheets and Tom Kendrick, steady 
customers and good boosters for the grocery business, and 
the Ish-Sheets lease on the Combination and jMohawk is 
the result. They hit the ledge at thirty-eight feet and the 
first week took out two carloads of ore, which netted 
$4000, enough to pay for all equipment. Nearly a million 
dollars has been taken out. 

In this lease Frank Ish and E. D. Bowles also had an 
interest. 

One of ]\Ir. Ish's claims to fame is the fact that he was 
the first man married in Goldfield. The ceremony was 
performed by Postmaster Collins, who was an acting 
justice of the peace. This interesting event took place in 
October, 1904. In those days there were no churches. 
This was Collins' first appearance as an aider and ab- 




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bettor of Cupid, but the bridegroom reminded Collins that 
the latter did not need to think he had a monopoly on 
nervousness, for he, the bridegroom, was as new to the 
performance as was Collins. The bride was Miss Evelyn 
Roach, a charming Nevada girl, born about lOO miles 
from Goldfield. They have a beautiful home in Goldfield, 
whose hospitable doors welcome hosts of friends. 

Mr. Ish is now associated with the firm of Marvin Ish 
& Brother. He is a popular young fellow, successful and 
always a booster for Goldfield and Nevada. He is a 
native son of California, born in San Francisco August 
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XE by o,ne the early pioneers of Nevada 
are passing away. Each year the Hst of 
those who lived and fought and won 
and lost again in the days before the 
railroad] came, is growing shorter. Men 
of the early days in Virginia City, 
Pioche, Eureka, and the other camps which were in their 
prime a quarter of a century ago, are very few now ; but 
they are grand old men — those who are left — and hon- 
ored everywhere. 

Ephrim DeMore Turner is a picturesque figure, a man 
one might well point to as an example for the youth of 
the desert. He was born in Illinois, May 27, 1833, 'i"^* 
of actual school life he received one year; he crossed the 
plains in a wagon in '52, and stopped at Gibsonville. 
Sierra County, where his father opened a blacksmith 
shop. For a brief time he mined in California, then went 
to Nevada, where he took part in the Indian war of i860 
when a little band of citizens left Mginia City and for 
forty-five days waged war against 2000 Indians. He 
helped to bury a few of his comrades and a great many 
of the foes of his 'people. In '63, he went to Reese 
River, and arrived in Austin the day after the "axe 
man" created a panic ; he found the place in an uproar ; 
a man had gone insane the day before, rushed through 
the town with an axe, killing or wounding all who came 
within his reach ; he was never seen after that day, but 
for years afterward the mention of the "axe man" would 
make the women jump. It is believed he was killed on 
the desert by "White Headed" Ross, a man supposed to be 
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Mr. Turner worked in Austin during the hard times 
of the winter of '65, when the best man of the day was 
hicky if he got one meal out of three. Men could not 
get work for their board ; he worked for 50 cents a day 
and at night he divided that sum that some of his fel- 
lows might eat. 

From Austin he went to Pioche and was in business 
there at the time the camp was nearly wiped out by fire 
and more than fifty of its inhabitants were killed. He 
lost everything in the fire, and had to make a new start. 
In '75 he became night watchman for the fire depart- 
ment and after that was made constable, deputy sheriff 
and then sherifif. The last office he filled for ten rears 
until U. J. R. De La ]\Iar bought the great De La Mar 
Mine and came to him to ask him to become boss of the 
bullion gang. Bullion from the mine had to be hauled 175 
miles by coach and then shipped from Millford. Utah, 
to Salt Lake. It was a dangerous business and one that 
required courage, a clear brain and the ability to com- 
mand. The bullion was taken out in a big Concord coach 
and the boss rode by the driver while two men sat guard 
inside. 

In two years and seven months five and a half millions 
in bullion were carried out in this way. Then the system 
was changed. Mr. Turner was made collector of lights 
and water, and later, postmaster at Delamar. This po- 
sition he occupied until a few months ago, when he went 
to live at Columbia to be near his daughter and his son. 
As early as '64 he became interested in politics and that 
vear was made County Clerk of Nye County. In May 
'75 he married Kate Brinkman, a fifteen-year-old girl, 
who was left an orphan at that time ; three sons and a 
daughter were born to them. His wife died some years 
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JOHN TINNIN 

ANY of the cattle kings of old Nevada 
have, since the birth of the new Nevada, 
become mining men. Some of those 
who were feeding beef to the miners of 
the Comstock lode and giving little heed 
to the wealth of her mines are, since the 
discovery of Goldfield and Tonopah, turning their atten- 
tion to mining. 

Of the men of this class, one who is loved and hon- 
ored throughout the state is Col. John Tinnin, formerlv 
a partner of Governor John Sparks in the cattle industry 
of Nevada. 

John Tinnin was born in a log house on a cotton plan- 
tation in Mississippi in 1840, and when a boy of fifteen 
went to Texas, where he entered the ranger service. H? 
was for four years in the confederate army and fought 
for the cause of the South — stopped fighting Indians and 
went to fighting Yankees, as he expresses it. In 1881 he 
came to Nevada and a short time later went to Cheyenne, 
Wvoming, and induced Governor Sparks to return with 
him to the sagebrush state. From '81 until '89 the two men 
were partners and their cattle interests steadily grew. 
Their range covered 150 miles north and south and al- 
most as many east and west. They gradually bought uj) 
the herds of small raisers until they owned 80,000 head 
of cattle. In the hard winter of '88 and '89 these two 
partners lost half of their stock. In that year John Tinnin 
sold out and went to other fields, but it was not long until 
he was back again, buying more cattle. Today he has a 
ranch in Nebraska of 10,000 acres, and also owns a large 
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For the last year he has heen in Goldfield acquiring 
mining- interests and where he once had no thought for 
anything but Hve stock it is now the mining stock market 
which claims most of his attention. Colonel Tinnin be- 
gan the cattle business with $iioo worth of stock, 300 
pounds of bacon and six bushels of corn meal. He is in 
spirit a young man today. Possessed of a keen sense of 
humor, a great big heart, a pair of fine blue eyes and a 
big stock of sound philosophy, he is a charming man to 
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WIRY little man, with keen blue eyes 
and sun tanned face, grew tired of pros- 
pecting in Tonopah one day early in 
Julv. 1905. and turned his steps toward 
the south. Without saying anything 
as to his intentions he packed his burros 
long and lonely march for new fields of 
fortune. Two years before that time he had come into 
Tonopah from the south and had passed through what 
is now the Bullfrog District. Retracing his steps, he 
went down the Amargosa Valley past the Beatty Ranch 
and out upon the desert. Far out in the sagebrush he 
encountered a lonely figure, burroless, out of food and 
altogether down on his luck. 

"Up against it. old man?" asked "Shorty" Harris, for 
it was none other than the father of Bullfrog who thus 
accosted the stranger. The latter's answer was a grunt. 
"Saw a big quartz blowout. Looked good to me when 
I went through her a couple of years ago. Queer, green- 
ish sort of stuff. Want to find it?" asked Harris. 
And in Ed Cross Bullfrog has its second father. 
The two men prospected around the hills and on 
August 4, 1904, discovered the "greenish looking quartz" 
that "Shorty" Harris had noticed on his former trip 
through the valley. If "Shorty" was short in stature, he 
was long on imagination. The ore was green, the color 
of a bullfrog. The pieces of rock, according to "Shorty," 
were about as far apart as a bullfrog's jump, and were 
about the size of a well-fed bullfrog. So "Shorty" called 
the place Bullfrog, and Bullfrog it has been ever since. 
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the rock, and immediately there was a rush to the new 
district. 

Since that time the camp has been forgin.s: to the front 
in leaps greater than did ever a bullfrog take. A busy 
band of prospectors tramped the hills day and night 
staking out claims and giving to them names which were 
soon to become the watchwords of the district. A town 
sprang up here and another one there, and rivalry was 
keen between them. A handful of men camped in the 
gulch at the foot of Ladd Mountain and a couple of them 
started off down the valley to build a town. They platted 
a townsite and offered lots to those who would come down. 
There was one man that was not included in the general 
invitation. He was the camp-mate of Frank Busch and 
because of some misunderstanding between himself and 
the organizers of the new town he was left out. Frank 
Busch, true to his pal, declined the lot offered him, and 
formulated a plan to start an opposition townsite. He 
did not have any money, but he had plenty of energy and 
pluck, and these carried him to Tonopah, where he bor- 
rowed $300 with which to found Rhyolite. 

The new camp was built in a day. Frank Busch and 
his associates did not stop at offering lots to residents of 
the rival town, but even moved their places of business 
for them. Born in strife, the little town has had many 
a battle since, and camp rivalry has been strong. Where 
there is rivalry, there is also patriotism and loyalty, and 
the men of Rhyolite have been lacking in neither. 

Four miles east there is Beatty, the next largest camp 
of the district, named for "Old Man Beatty," as the 
rancher who had lived there for many years before an- 
other white man set foot in the country, is familiarly 
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The Las Vegas and Tonopah, the first railroad into the 
southern part of the State, reached Beatty in October, 
1906. Before that time every stick of wood and every 
pound of food had to be hauled nearly a hundred miles 
over the desert in wagons. Now there are two railways 
into Bullfrog, and soon there will be a third. 

The mineral zone, commonly designated as the Bullfrog 
District, covers an area of about 400 square miles. 

The ores are found mainly in quartz and the formation 
is usually a highly silicified rhyolite with manganese and 
talcous ores carrying a heavy sulphide. Though there 
are some high-grade properties in the camp, the district 
is essentially low grade with vast bodies of milling ore 
which many believe will be producing wealth years after 
the more sensational camps have been forgotten. It has 
required time and courage to bring the Bullfrog mines 
to their present state of development, but the men of the 
district have been willingly patient. With the opening 
of the mill on the Montgomery-Shoshone, purchased bv 
Charles M. Schwab and his associates, a great era in the 
camp's history was recorded. The mill has proved the 
feasibility of the reduction of the Bullfrog ores in the 
camp rather than shipping them away. It would not be 
safe to estimate how many millions are already blocked 
out in the mines of Bullfrog, but the figure is one that 
will act as a buoy to the men of the district through all 
periods of hard times. 

Soon other mills will be dropping stamps and the pro- 
duction of Bullfrog will prove to the mining world the 
truth of all her most ardent supporters have claimed. 

Since that day when "Shorty" Harris and Ed Cross 
met in the desert. Bullfrog has lived, grown and flour- 
ished. She has the ore ; she has the men : she has the 
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E. A. MONTGOMERY 



LOXG time ago in Canada a little boy 

looked at the hills and dreamed of gold. 

He went about his work and his lessons 

and his play and through it all he 

dreamed that some day he would put 

his finger on the spot where gold was 

hidden, bring»it out of the mountain and make him a rich 

man. It was in Seaforth, November 4, 1863, that the boy 

was born, and it was in the Bullfrog district in 1904 that 

the dream began to come true. 

The bov was E. A. Montgomery, known in every min- 
ing camp in the West as "Bob." It was nearly twenty 
years from the time he dreamed his boyhood dreams of 
gold until he finally began the life of a miner. 

In 1885, he was farming in Iowa, when the mining ex- 
citement in Idaho broke out, and people from every part 
of the country flocked in response to the gold cry. Bob 
Montgomery heard the cry and he exchanged the plow 
for the pick. From that time until 1892 he traveled over 
the West, stopping at any section where conditions were 
at all promising, and in March of that year he located 
the Montgomery Mining District, sixty miles south of 
the present site of Bullfrog. 

He opened up the Johnnie Mine, and at the same time 
did some work in Death Valley. He staked prospectors 
who discovered mines in the Panamint District. He 
grew tired of Nevada prospects and was about to go to 
Mexico when the Salt Lake Road from Salt Lake to 
Los Angeles was proposed. In this he saw the beginning 
of a new era in mining in Nevada, and he went to work 
with renewed vigor in his prospecting. In 1902 he went 








to Tonopah and soon afterward was chosen because of 
his knowledge of the entire southern part of the State, 
to act as chief right-of-way agent for a company of Los 
Angeles men who proposed building a railroad. He 
traveled for 200 miles without seeing any living thing but 
an occasional lizard and jackrabbit, and he made a report 
sufficient to justify the building of the railroad. 

The route he chose would have touched the present sites 
of Goldfield. Bullfrog, Lee and Greenwater, and would 
have tapped the big borax fields. The company sent an 
engineer over the same route, but the engineer could not 
see beneath the ground ; he lacked the power to look 
into the future which Mr. Montgomery possessed, and 
he returned to Los Angeles to throw cold water on the 
project. 

If that road had been built, the mines of Nevada would 
be in a different condition today. Since that time two 
roads have been built over the route he recommended, 
though at that time and for nearly four years afterward, 
the man who crossed the country crossed it on burro- 
back or by stage. On the strength of a report of rich 
ore discovered by Ed Cross on the original Bullfrog, Mr. 
Montgomery made a trip from Tonopah to that new dis- 
trict. He drove from Tonopah, traveling all day and 
night to get there, and he located six claims. On his way 
back he stopped at Oasis,) owned by John Howell, a 
negro, who was a pioneer of the desert and a friend of 
Mr. Montgomery's. There he met "Hungry Johnny," an 
Indian, whom he employed to prospect for him. He gave 
the Indian two notices of location and was again go- 
ing out of the district when at Thorpes Mill he met men 
returning from Goldfield with results of assays on Bull- 
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dav. On his way he passed the Indian's camp and 
left word for him to follow and receive a lesson on dis- 
tingnishing the kind of rock found to be rich. The In- 
dian went to Bonanza mountain, and ]\Ir. ^Montgomery 
showed him the Denver outcropping. 

"I catch him all the same ledge," the Indian said, and 
he led him to the south end of the Alontgomery mountain, 
where he found a w-ell-built monument in which one of 
the location notices had been placed. The property is the 
same that is now known as the Indian Johnny. He then 
took him to the Shoshone, and Bob Montgomery that 
day located Shoshone Xo. 2 and No. 3. the latter claim 
being the one upon which the rich Shoshone mine was 
discovered. He worked all day and that night he wrote 
his location notice in the dark. He located the town site 
of Beattv and started a settlement there, at the same time 
doing preliminary work on fifteen claims. 

Then he went to Goldfield to consult his partne-. 
The partner, T. E. Edwards, offered to sell his claim for 
$100,000, and Mr. :Montgomery exercised his option by 
interesting Malcolm Macdonald of Tonopah to furnish 
the first $10,000. 

The first stock with a par value of $1 sold at $2 a share 
and 25,000 shares were required for the completion of the 
corporation. The first shipment of forty tons was hauled 
out by wagon in April. In January of 1906 the famous 
Montgomery-Shoshone lawsuit was up before the courts, 
and until it was finally settled in :\Ir. ]\Iontgomery"s favor 
and with greatest credit to him. no ore could be shipped 
from the mine. 

Donald Gillies, as manager for Charles ^I. Schwab. 
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the date upon which Edwards had disposed of his in- 
terests, the mine was sold to Mr. Schwab. 

Mr. ^lontgomery retained one-fifth interest in the mine 
and is stih a director in the Shoshone ConsoHdated. 

Mr. Montgomery is owner of the Skidoo Mine Com- 
pany's properties, is one of the principal owners of the 
Brown Palace Mine at Rosebud, and numerous other 
properties throughout the State, in addition to being part 
owner in a big Idaho mine. 

If he so willed, Bob Montgomery could retire from 
active operation in the mining field and live comfortablv 
for the rest of his life on the harvest he has reaped from 
his operations. Instead he prefers to demonstrate to the 
world his faith in mining as a legitimate investment, and 
he is as active now as ever. 

Since those days when he dreamed of the hidden treas- 
ures of Mother Earth he has met many disappointments 
and has several times been near death. He is a man 
who has few enemies; his is a gentle kindly nature and 
if he has a fault, it is his generosity. 

His word is as good as his bond, and wherever he leads 
in the mining world there are many ready to follow. 




LITTLE German lad not more than 
eleven years of age stepped up to the 
big superintendent of the Anaconda 
Mine in Butte, ^lontana, one day a 
good many years ago, and asked for 
work. The foreman looked him over, 
smiled to himself, and asked the boy what he thought he 
could do. "There is nothing in a mine that you could 
do, my lad," said the superintendent. But the boy was 
not so certain of that. He convinced the miner that even 
an eleven-year-old boy might make himself useful if he 
chose so to do. And the superintendent sent him away 
promising to see him again later in the day. 

At the second meeting he sent the boy to the foreman 
who looked at him, laughed, and sent him back to the 
superintendent. The latter had taken a fancy to the 
plucky little chap and recognized in him the kind of ma- 
terial that men are made of. 

"Sit down a minute, and I will take you to the foreman 
myself," said the superintendent. And the next day the 
boy went to work in the Anaconda Mine. 

At first his duties consisted of carrying water to the 
men in the stopes. Then one thing and another, until 
there was little about a mine that the boy did not know. 
At the age of eighteen years, Matt Hoveck, for it was 
Matt Hoveck. was made foreman of the great Anaconda 
Mine. Men many years his senior took orders from him 
willingly. His small beginning had grown to be some- 
thing large and ever since then Alatt Hoveck has been 
forging to the front among practical mining men. 

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about ten years of age. His family settled in New York, 
and there the boy received his first knowledge of the 
English language. 

Before the gold rush into Nevada, Mr. Hoveck mined 
in various districts, and had charge of some of the import- 
ant mining properties of Arizona. He was in Tonopah at 
the time "Bob" Montgomery went into the Bullfrog dis- 
trict, and he met Mr. Montgomery when he was returning 
from his second trip into the field of the new excitement. 

"Things look pretty good down there, you had better 
come back with me," advised Mr. Montgomery, and 
Matt Hoveck went. He became superintendent of the 
Montgomery-Shoshone Mine, and put the first pick into 
Shoshone ground. Under his supervision a prospect be- 
came a mine, and he was still in charge when the property 
was purchased by Charles M. Schwab. 

When Mr. Schwab took over the Montgomery-Sho- 
shone , there were four million dollars in sight, and 1,700 
feet of development work had been done. Mr. Hoveck 
also had an interest in this mine, which netted him a nice 
little fortune. He resigned his position as superintendent 
in May, 1906, to take charge of Bob Montgomery's inter- 
ests at Skidoo. 

As Matt Hoveck made a mine in Bullfrog, so he has 
been doing at Skidoo and he has built a town around 
this mine. What the Montgomery-Shoshone mine has 
done for Bullfrog, the Skidoo mine will do for this new 
section, and "Bob" Montgomery and his superintendent 
form a team that is sure to win. 

Matt Hoveck is a great big good-natured, open-hearted, 
generous man. His kingdom is a mine, and the world he 
really loves best is the world carpeted with sand and 
sagebrush, bounded on four sides by hills of gold and 
peopled with miners. 




BUSCH BROTHERS 

HREE brothers, count 'em, all true blue, 
Frank J., Peter A. and J. E. Buscli, 
form a close family corporation which 
is doing big things in the Nevada coun- 
try. Frank Busch was the founder of 
Rhyolite, that live town in the Bullfrog 
District. He, with P. R. Stanley, located Rhyolite and 
sold the first lot — for $50. The brothers Busch are na- 
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had a wide experience in mining and business ventures. 
Frank Busch gained his first mining lore in Colorado, 
went to Alaska seven years ago, then tried Arizona for a 
time, returned to Colorado and came to Goklfield when 
labor troubles in the Cripple Creek District caused active 
operations there to be suspended temporarily. The newer 
camp farther south attracted himi and Rhyolite is the re- 
sult. There he was joined by his two brothers, and they 
started a business in mining stocks, real estate and min- 
ing properties that has grown to large proportions. The 
pioneer brother in Rhyolite also engaged extensively in 
Ad^anhattan deals, opening an office there and buying some 
fine properties. Later he opened an office in Goklfield, 
where he at once became prominent in the business life of 
the town. Peter A. and J. E. Busch entered Rhvolite in 
1905. The former was superintendent of the Bullfrog 
Peerless and brought about the sale of the property to a 
big New York syndicate for $100,000 cash. J. E. was 
connected with the Cook Bank previous to the time he 
went to Rhyolite. He is now secretary of the firm. 

They are all practical miners, each has worked 
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or put in timbers with expert skill. They have interests 
in Lee, Skidoo, Greenwater, Ibex District, Utah oil fields, 
Wonder and many other localities. The firm has the rec- 
ord of making more sales of miining property than any 
other in the district. Peter Busch is director of the First 
National Bank of Rhyolite. secretary of the Rhyolite 
Power Company, vice-president of the Board of Trade, 
and a school director. Two have yielded to Cupid's darts, 
while J. E. has as yet remained a bachelor. 

Although the Busch brothers are interested in nearly 
every camp in Nevada they still count Rhyolite their home, 
and they are patriotic boosters for the town. Personally 
there is not a trio of young fellows with more friends, 
anywhere in the country. Square, generous-hearted, 
wide-awake, energetic boys, they are rightly loved by all 
who know them. They can tell many stories of their 
early days in various mining camps, and all of them love 
the big free life of the West. 

A splendid working trio they make. One brother de- 
votes most of his time to the actual business of mining; 
another, to the brokerage end, and the youngest who is 
a thoroughly trained office man, gives his attention to the 
inside work. 







\TER. water, water ! has always been the 
cry of the trail blazer of the desert, and 
water has played an important part in 
many a desert fight. When a little 
handful of men were trying to estab- 
lish the town of Rhyolite as a rival of 
Bullfrog- in the Bullfrog District, one of the chief obstacles 
they had to overcome was the lack of water. Curtis 
jMann realized that the town which should first be able 
to provide its people with water in abundance would be 
the town that would win the fight. With this end in view 
he promoted the Indian Springs Water Company, and in 
ninety days after the first paper was signed four miles 
of pipe line had been laid, a pumping plant erected, and 
water was there for all comers. 

Curtis Mann is a splendid representative of the best 
type of Western man. He was born in Wisconsin and re- 
ceived his education at St. John's Military School, where 
he studied civil and mining engineering, but most of his 
life has been spent in the West. 

He has mined in various parts of Colorado and became 
interested in a lease on the Combination Fraction in Gold- 
field before he ever saw Nevada. It was to investigate 
this lease that he came to the sagebrush state. He is the 
kind of man who never lets a good opportunity pass, and 
hearing that houses were much in demand in Goldfield, he 
sent out two carloads of house tents. The same week 
lumber arrived in Goldfield, and when he tried to dispose 
of his tents he was met with "I want a house." He had 
never built a house in his life, but he made a beginning, 
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carpenters and put up fifteen of the first houses in camn. 
He went into the Bullfrog District with the vanguard, 
built the first frame office building in camp, and this he 
occupies today. He has brought as much outside capital 
into the camp as any other man. 

When he first arrived in Rhyolite he bought many pros- 
pects, taking a chance on anything ofifered to him at a 
reasonable sum. Many of these he has developed with- 
out finding anything, but all the money has been spent 
in legitimate mining — it has been put into the ground. 
He is among the first on the ground in every mining rush 
in the southern part of the State, always looking for the 
prospect which will some day make a great mine. He 
has the confidence of capitalists in various parts of the 
country, and all of them are ready to go into the thing 
which he considers the right one. Since he first went to 
Bullfrog he has kept two prospectors in the field most of 
the time, and one of them broke samples from the ground 
which is now' the property of the famous Skidoo mine 
owned by Bob Montgomery. The samples were taken 
from a point within a few feet of the outcroppings which 
later led to the discovery of the mine. Energetic and full 
of ambition, Curtis ]Mann is one of the men who will go 
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JUDGE L. O. RAY 

HERE is a big little man in Rhyolite 
who has a friend in almost every in- 
habited block in the southern desert. A 
long- time ago, or rather a short time 
ago, when Tonopah was very young, 
he was justice of the peace and the}) 
called him judge. His name is Lorin O. Ray, but he is 
Judge Ray wherever he goes. 

A mining excitement in Southern Nevada would not 
be the real thing if Judge Ray were not there, for he has 
had a share in all of them. He tried his luck in Tonopah 
and then he prospected off to the north and located the 
present camp of Ray. 

He went to Goldfield, but that was also out of his streak 
of luck. He sunk the first shaft on the Mohawk ground 
but missed the ledge which was later worked as the Ka^ 
fus lease. 

He struck Bullfrog just at the right time and has 
lived there ever since, one of the most respected of re- 
spected citizens. Judge Ray was one of the four locators 
of the Tramps, Denver, Victor, Peerlesses and Eclipse ; 
and with his associates realized a comfortable fortune 
from the sale of these. 

Nye county sent him to the legislature as one of her 
three representatives for the last session and Rhyolite has 
made him president of her board of trade and given him a 
first place among her citizens. He is of small stature, keen 
eye, and industrious and fearless nature ; as open hearted 
and patriotic as they can be found. 

Judge Ray is president of the Rhyolite Mining and 
Brokerage Company and has heavy interests all over the 
state. 




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ROM IX EXT amono- the factors which 
go to make hfe in the desert mining 
camp not only bearable but enjoyable, 
is the social chtb. 

Tonopah has its ]*ilizpah Club ; Gold- 
field its Montezuma Club, and Rhyolite 
now lias its Shoshone Club. To the credit of Sam F. 
Lindsay, county commissioner, miner, business man and 
all around substantial citizen, stands the last organiza- 
tion. As president of the organization he piloted it 
through its early days, and with the help of the prom- 
inent citizens of the camp planned the beautiful club 
house as a center of social life. 

Sam Lindsay is a pioneer in the Bullfrog district. He 
arrived here December 13. 1904, and came prepared to 
work with the pick. For two years previous he mined 
in Tonopah. coming there from Colorado. \\'ith him 
came George J. Welsh and the two formed a partner- 
ship ; while one worked in camp for money with which 
to prospect, the other one tramped the hills, locating 
claims. Thev took turn about until Welsh died in 1905. 
Mr. Lindsay was born in Burke County. X'^orth Caro- 
lina. !May 3, 1870. He is president of the Bullfrog 
Amethyst Extension Company, president of the Hav- 
seed and vice-president of the Lee Bell Mining Company. 
He is vice-president and director of the Rhyolite Power 
Company and director of the First Xational Bank. He 
is a staunch Democrat and was recently elected county 
commissioner on that ticket. 

Sam Lindsay is honored as a man who is square in 
everything. He is a thorough Western man. quiet and 
earnest, and true to the core. 






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JUDGE J. B. LINDSAY 



UDGE J. B. LINDSAY is another man 
of good old Southern stock, who has 
sought and found fortune in the West. 
After you talk to Judge Lindsay you 
know he is a Southerner ; after you 
talk to him again you know he is 
from North Carolina. There he was born and spent his 
early youth. He was educated at Savoy College in Texas 
and, imbued with the wisdom he had accumulated there, 
began to impart it to others, teaching school for three 
years. This occupation was not sufficiently remunerative 
for an ambitious man. and Mr. Lindsay went to the Great 
Northwest. 

While Tonopah was in its swaddling clothes, Mr. Lind- 
say arrived on the scene. More or less interested in pol- 
itics he was chosen by the Democrats as nominee for jus- 
tice of the peace, and his popularity was such that he led 
the entire ticket. He was the first justice of the peace in 
the camp. This gave him his title of Judge. 

Mr. Lindsay entered the Bullfrog District when things 
began to boom three. He was one of the promoters of 
the Mayflower, Starlight and many other first-class prop- 
erties in the surrounding district. He is one of the 
heaviest owners of mining property in Lee, and is an offi- 
cer and director in a dozen mining companies. He 
founded the Rhyolite Mining and Brokerage Company. 

Judge Lindsay is and will be as long as he lives in the 
district, one of the leaders. Fortune has smiled upon him 
and good business judgment and good luck have com- 
bined for him. He is prominent in Masonic circles, being 
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JOHN L. CADOGAN 

ALK if you will about the oldest living 

Mason, the only survivor of the Custer 

massacre, or the most ancient veteran of 

the Mexican war, but here is a man who 

will be pointed out in the days to come 

as a pioneer, the man who occupied the 

first office in the first frame buildinj;- that was built in 

Rhyolite and was the first broker to engage in business 

in that place. 

John L. Cadogan, of John L. Cadogan & Company, 
brokers, is a Californian by birth. He was born in Oak- 
land June 6, 1879. 

He became interested in the brokerage business in San 
Francisco and when the rush to Rhyolite began to draw 
hundreds in its wake Mr. Cadogan was not the one to 
be left behind. He arrived in wdiat was then a tent city 
in August, 1905. 

Seeing the possibilities for a legitimate brokerage bus'- 
ness in what he knew was destined to be a thriving camp 
and later a somewhat pretentious town Mr. Cadogan 
opened an ofiice. Later he was joined by A. G. Cadogan. 
The business prospered from the start. 

He is prominent among mining men and brokerage 
houses in Nevada. Mr. Cadogan was one of the principal 
movers in the effort to organize a mining stock exchange 
in Rhyolite. 

He was elected vice-president of the exchange, and has 
given time and attention to its upbuilding. 

One of Mr. Cadogan 's most successful enterprises was 
the flotation of the stock of the Homestake mine which 
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LEONARD B. McGARRY 

ESERT transportation, in its natural se- 
quence, runs somewhat to this order : 
burro, freighting team, and railroad. 
The man who is wise enough to go into 
the freighting and transfer business in 
the days before the railroad comes is 
likely to build a foundation for his prospective fortunes, 
as Leonard B. McGarry can tell you from experience. In 
the spring of 1902 he went to Tonopah and established a 
transfer and freighting business between that place and 
Sodaville. 

The son of a Eureka pioneer, he had the mining fever 
fairly well developed from the start, and his digressions 
from this occupation were means to an end. When Gold- 
field arrived on the map Len McGarry went there and 
opened the first lumber yard in the camp, and acquired 
mining interests. In August, 1904, he came to Bullfrog 
and went into the general ; merchandise business. His 
store building was a tent, for. this was before the town of 
Rhyolite was even started. He located the property now 
known as the Bullfrog West Extension, one of the best 
in the section. 

He promoted Bullfrog Teddy, adjoining the West Ex- 
tension, and one hundred and fifty thousand shares were 
offered at five cents a share, from which the property was 
developed in a manner to justify the original locators in 
advancing the funds necessary to carry on the work to its 
present state. 

Mr. McGarry has interests in the townsite of Lee and 
is connected with the Burro Fraction Alining Compan} 
and the Hayseed Extension Mining Company. In addi- 
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^ HE "Terry ]\IcGovern"' of Nevada lives 
in Rhyolite and his name is Fagan. with 
a John J. before it. He fights just as 
hard as Terry, but not quite in the same 
way. Not that he does not fight fair, 
but his are legal encounters incident to 



the disputed rights of all extensive locators and operators 
of mineral territory in Nevada, where laws, rules and 
regulations are as yet somewhat uncrvstallized. 

yir. Fagan came from Denver immediatelv on the re- 
ported discovery of the Bullfrog- district. His capital with 
which he came to "operate" consisted of $45 ; but his tech- 
nical education, practical knowledge of mining and de- 
termination to take hold, compensated — as it does in Ne- 
vada — for the lack of capital. He is now actively operat- 
ing- from his Rhyolite office properties in manv of the 
principal districts of Southern Nevada. He and his men 
were among; the very first locators of Bullfrog. Green- 
water, Skidoo. Lees, Ubeheba, Gold Mountain and other 
new camps south of Goldfield. 

It was during- these "rushes," when dates of location 
were frequently designated by the hour and minute, and 
overlapping- lines could not be closely determined, that he 
acquired the titles of "Fighting Terrv" and "Fraction 
Jack." 

He was one of the original owners of a considerable 
portion of the Rhyolite townsite. His hundreds of loca- 
tions he has developed mostly personally, incorporating 
but three companies 

His success is largely due to the fact that he has shown 
the same energy in the holding and developing of his 
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AW men who tried their hiek in Tono- 
pah and Goldfield with indifferent suc- 
cess, went to lluUfrog- with the first 
rush .and in that new tieUl made both 
name and fortune. Among the pio- 
neers of Rhyohte who have had re- 
markable success are the Murphy brothers, four in num- 
ber and fine fellows, all of them. 

At present there is but one of them in Rhyolite, Dan 
Murphv ; his brothers whose names are closely connected 
with the early history of the camp, have departed for 
other fields. 

Dan Murphy was the first of the brothers to arrive. 
He came from Colorado \\here he hatl been mining for 
several years and pitched his tent first in Tonopah and 
later in Goldfield. He had learned his mining- lessons 
from the field, and was thus able to take advantage of 
the manv good opportunities. He secured some good 
claims and some of these helped very materially to in- 
crease his bank account. 

He is one of the inmates of "The Bullpen," and the 
Bullpen is famed afar. 

Everv one who knows anything about the Bullfrog 
district knows a little about this jolly bachelor house 
around which much of the social life of the camps cen- 
ter. With Miles and Clement Millward, and J. L. Cado- 
gan, Dan Murphv completes a quartet of royal hosts who 
have entertained many a visitor and sent him away 
praising the hospitality, and in fact everything else, in 
Rhyolite. Young, generous-hearted, daring, possessed 
of keen Irisli wit and Western broadness, Dan Murphy is 
a man who needs onlv to be known to be admired. 



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X the microscopic slide of "Who's Who 
in Nevada" there now rests a new 
specijiien whom we will proceed to ex- 
amine with something- akin to awe. He 
belongs to that much maligned, some- 
times feared, occasionally appreciated, 
but altogether necessary and useful class known as news- 
paper men. These individuals, not numerous but gener- 
ally in evidence, have followed closely in the wake of the 
pathfinders who blazed the way into the heart of the 
Western desert. 

Frank P. Mannix, ecUtor and founder of the pioneer 
newspaper, the Bullfrog Miner, is a man who has given 
of his time and his talents, as few others have done, to 
make of Southern Nevada something more than a sage- 
brush waste. He was born in Malone, New York, forty- 
five years ago. (He does not look it, but the family 
Bible can not lie.) At the age of eighteen years he was 
publisher, editor, devil and ex-ofificio owner of a weekly 
paper at Degraff, ]\Iinn., one of Bishop Ireland's colonies. 
He served a sentence of six months in Degraff, and then 
accepted a job of doing nothing on the Diamond Joe 
passenger steamer running betweeit St. Paul and St. 
Louis. He could not stay awav from the newspaper 
offices and at the time Garfield was assassinated he was 
"holding down" the telegraph desk on the Omaha Bee. 
(This is not intended in any way to establish an alibi.) 
He established the Victor Record, in the Cripple Creek 
District, and later was elected clerk and recorder of Teller 
County, serving two terms. He came to Rhyolite in Feb- 
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HARRY G. McMAHON 



HRILLING experiences on the desert in 
pursuit of the fickle goddess Fortune 
have not aged Harry G. McMahon, but 
they have made him fearless, self-rehant 
and strongly adherent to a fixed pur- 
pose : in all, a typical man from Nevada. 
His pursuit of this divinity, already mentioned, has not 
been without a goodly measure of success, and there is 
none that begrudges him his well-merited achievements. 

He is the son of John IVIcAlahon, a pioneer of the Com- 
stock Lode, who penetrated South Africa. China, v'^outh . 
America, and Mexico in his search for the treasures of 
the earth. Harry McMahon was born in Santa Rosa, 
California, not so very many years ago. He wandered 
through Idaho and Alaska before Nevada claimed him 
In the days when Rhyolite was not, Mr. McMahon located 
150 claims in the southern part of the state, and has been 
prominently connected with the development of this great 
storehouse of wealth. 

He was interested in bringing about the Mayflower 
Consolidation of the Mayflower and Starlight properties, 
and he has been among the foremost in the advancement 
of many big and profitable concerns. He is also deeply 
interested in the Croesus, Banner, and Midas properties. 
But that is not all, for Tecopa. Greenwater, and Wonder 
claim a considerable amount of his attention. 

Harry McMahon is a practical miner who has learned 
his lessons from the field, and knows a mine wiien he sees 
it. He numbers his friends in every section of the coun- 
try he has visited, and whether in the corridors of the 
Alexandria in Los Angeles, or deep underground in a 
mine, he's the same genial, likeable fellow\ 



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XD Still she lives — this is the wonder 
about Manhattan. Xot that she is un- 
worthy to live — the fight that she has 
made for ^istence proves her worthi- 
ness. 

Leave a man out on the desert crip- 
pled and without food and water, and if that man is ever 
heard of again it is because he has in him something that 
cannot be killed. 

No camp in Nevada has been through the fire and come 
out as Manhattan has. Because down in the earth she 
has the stuff of which mines are made and on the earth 
she has men with the faith and courage to make mines, 
she is not only alive but forging to the front with rapid 
strides. Her men are mining in the ground and not in 
other people's pockets. 

It has been a troubled life which this camp has led 
perched upon the hillsides in the most beautiful portion 
of the southern desert. 

As long ago as the Comstock days, W. E. Ralston 
mined in the Ralston desert. He and his associates were 
looking for high grade lead and silver ores and paying lit- 
tle attention to gold mining. They called the district 
Manhattan. With the demonetization of silver the work- 
ings were abandoned and Manhattan was forgotten. 

All that was left was the name. 

Early in Apil, 1905, Jack Humphrey, a cowboy who 
had many times ridden through the district on his way to 
Austin or Smokey \'alley, and Ed. Seyler discovered gold 
north of the former district. They located claims and 
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ter than indications promised and tlie Manhattan of today 
is the result. 

People went mad over the new discovery. In San 
Francisco they had laughed at the idea of investing money 
in Tonopah and when Goldfield was discovered they still 
turned duhious eyes on Nevada's mining possibilities. 
With Bullfrog they were too late and most of them by 
that time imbued with the speculative fever made a grab 
at anvthing ^lanhattan had to oiTer. Mining men from 
Nevada would stand on the streets in San Francisco with 
samples of ore. 

"Where did you get it ?" was the first qucs'ion of the 
pedestrian, and a mad rush to Manhattan followed. Min- 
ing was done on paper. The wildcatters reaped a harvest. 
Property was bought and sold and bought again without 
ever being seen. In the midst of all this speculation a 
few relial)le mining men secured some splendid properties. 
The gold was there and that was all that was needed. 
It is there today. The camp was just beginning to recover 
from this gambling era when the San Francisco disaster 
came. San Francisco money ceased coming into Nevada. 
The San Francisco mine owners had nothing with which 
to operate. Mines had to be shut down. And yet Man- 
hattan lives. 

A few determined men went to work to prove to the 
world that the stock market is only a very small part of 
mining. They went to work to make mines. With very 
small capital they kept somp of the best properties going 
and more and more have been opened with each month. 
Manhattan has now recovered from a double depression. 
The camp is so far from a raiload that it was necessary 
to put up mills and this has taken time. Today there are 
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400,000 tons of milling ore developed. Three ten stamp 
mills are in operation and four more will be built within 
six months. The camp has the largest mineralized zone 
of milling ore of any in the state so far as is known at 
present. 

Prior to the San Francisco disaster there were more 
than 6,000 people in camp and it was impossible to get a 
bed in the town. Alen made fortunes in automobiles run- 
ning between Tonopah and Manhattan and prospective 
buyers fought for a seat in them. 

Now the camp is on the map to stay. She has her Man- 
hattan Consolidated, her Manhattan Bryfogle, Rocklin, 
Stray Dog, Wolftone, Thanksgiving, Forked Stick, Seyler 
Humphrey, Chipmunk, Pine Nut, Paymaster, Manhattan 
Giant, Mustang, Little Gray, Grannie. Manhattan Mining, 
Manhattan Giant and a large number of other mines. 

Though stocks go down, the mines are there and it is 
safe to say Manhattan will have more real surprises m 
store for the mineral world some dav. 




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CADA C. BOAK 

UITE by accident have some of the 
greatest minino- properties of the 
world been -found, and many men have 
tramped many times over ground which 
later some one man has proved to be 
a treasure vault for fabulous wealth. 
"The mine that made Manhattan famous" as the Man- 
hattan Consolidated ^line is called, was discovered in 
just such a way. In the summer of 1905, when the first 
rich finds were being made in Manhattan, Cada C. Boak, 
then operating in Tonopah, sent Howard Burr, a pros- 
pector into the new field and Mr. Burr located among 
other properties in the district the claim which is now the 
scene of the main workings of The Consolidated. 

In the following September ^Ir. Boak went to Man- 
hattan with INIr. Burr and on that trip, while breaking 
rock under a tree, Mr. Boak accidently discovered the 
free gold which designated the great Consolidated ledge. 
He and his companion at once covered up their find and 
went to Tonopah to negotiate the purchase of adjoining 
property. Mr. Boak then formed the Manhattan Consol- 
idated Mines Company and work was begun at once. The 
mine is one of the best equipped in Southern Nevada and 
Mr. Boak still retains the controlling interest and is at 
the helm. He purchased the property and organized the 
original Manhattan Mines Company, another of the most 
promising mines of the district, and upon the organiza- 
tion of the Round Mountain Antelope Mining Company 
was made its president. Mr. Boak and Judge Lewis 
Rogers of Goldfield claim the distinction of having taken 
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largest and \\i'»X valuable free j^old nuj^get ever found in 
Nevada. 

On Mr. Boak's recommendation a syndicate composed 
of himself and associates, purchased the Manhattan 
Breyfogle Mine, which is attracting attention by its great 
bodies of ore. He also owns the Rogers Round Moun- 
tain Mine, and has interests in every other camp of im- 
portance in the state. 

Mr. Boak was born and reared on a large stock farm 
in Hamilton County, Iowa, and comes from staunch oM 
Irish and Puritan English stock. It was while working 
in one of the ea.stern cities as an "advertising expert" 
that he heard of Tonojjah. He invested money in small 
blocks of stock and finally determined to try what this 
young Eldorado of the west held for him. He landed in 
Tonopah in the summer of 1904 with $65 of borrowed 
money in his pocket and went into the brokerage business. 
He .soon branched away from this as his private interests 
demanded too much of his time. He has offices in Tono- 
pah, but his interests in Manhattan make it necessary for 
him to spend much of his time there. 




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JOHN CARL HUMPHREY 




HERE was a day not long past when the 
cowboy was king of Nevada and many 
men who are successful in the mining- 
world today have lidden the ranges. 
To a cowboy belongs the credit of the 
discovery of Manhattan. John Hum- 
phrey, who broke the first pay rock in ■Manhattan, was 
born in Austin, Lander County, Nevada, on Christmas 
day, 1871. His boyhood was spent in this wonderful old 
silver camp and there it was that he learned to use the 
rope. For vears he had ridden up and down Smokey 
Valley and many times had loitered in the canyon which 
is now the site of the famous gold camp, but he was 
looking for cows then and the possibilities of gold did not 
bother him. In 1901, when Tonopah was discovered and 
interest w^as rife in that section, he and his brother, 
Charles Humphrey, determined to try their luck at pros- 
pecting. He spent much time covering the ground north 
and west of Tonopah, and made locations in many places, 
but it was not until April, 1905, that he discovered any- 
thing that satisfied him. From the ground which is now 
the April Fool Mine, he broke rock which appeared to 
carrv values and after locating the \\'ar Eagle and the 
Mustang, he took the ore to Tonopah to have it assayed. 
The assav report verified his hopes and he at once returned 
to the ground. In the midst of the black sage and pine 
and juniper trees, he located a townsite and the Manhat- 
tan of todav is the result. He was successful from the 
start in interesting outsiders in his discovery, and the 
news spread like wildfire all over the country. 








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FRANK NAUGHTON 

NCE quoted a father to his son in far- 
away Ireland — -"There is mineral for 
all ag"es hut not for all people" — and 
with these words he planted in the boy's 
heart a desire to be one of the few peo- 
ple. Perhaps had these words never 
been spoken Manhattan might not be as well known to 
the world as it is today. Frank Naughton was born in 
Ireland in 1868 and came to America when he was about 
20 years of age. He landed on this side of the water 
without money and was g^lad to get anything he could 
do to earn a little. For a while he polished pianos for ..i 
living, but in 1892 he decided to give up everything- else 
and try his luck in the gold fields. All his life he had 
wanted to mine and his first venture was in California. 
He went under the ground and learned from mother 
earth the secrets of her treasure vaults. It was 
in Alaska that he made his first stake. For five years 
he mined in Alaska and returned to the states just in time 
for the beginning of the excitement in Tonopah. It 
was in December, 1901, that he arrived. He bonded prop- 
erty in Jefiferson Canyon and on Morris Creek, but it was 
not until x^pril, 1905, that he made locations in Manhattan. 
He located the Big Mog-ul, on Litigation hill, die Turtle 
Dove, Big Chief, Kosmopoge, one, two and three, and the 
Thelmas group. In most of these propetries he still holds 
large interests and on the Wolf Tone is erecting a mill 
which should help to make it one of the greatest producers 
of the district. He is a practical miner considered an 
authority on mining and a square, big-hearted Nevadan. 



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ROSS MEDER 

FTER the mines, come the banks, recep- 
tacles for the wealth that Mother Earth 
is pouring out. This is the stor}- of a 
banker, a young man who went into the 
business when he was sixteen years old 
and has made more of a success than 
falls to the lot of the ordinary man — Ross Meder of Man- 
hattan, cashier of the Xye & Ormsby bank in that thriv- 
ing town. 

No other state can dispute Nevada's claim to Mr. 
Meder, for he was born in Carson City, and has spent 
practically his entire life to date in this state. He started 
in the banking business about the year 1890 in Carson 
City. 

In 1901 Mr. Meder went to Tonopah to accept a posi- 
tion with the State Bank and Trust Company. Now he is 
cashier of the Nye & Ormsby Bank at Manhattan. Ever 
since the early days of Tonopah the young banker has also 
been interested in mining. He has interests in the Man- 
hattan Comstock, Wolf tone and Gray Dexter, in Man- 
hattan, and in the Jim Butler Extension at Tonopah. 

Never satisfied unless he is progressing, Mr. Meder is 
recognized as one of the leaders in his line of business in 
the state, and is always prominent in advancing the in- 
terests of Nevada and ^lanhattan. He has a firm belief 
in Manhattan as a permanent mining camp and he is one 
of the good boosters who has done not a little to make 
the name and fame of Manhattan known far and wide 
He is a ]iopular, likable young man, everybody is his 
friend, and he has the confidence and respect of the busi- 
ness interests throuuhoitt the state. 







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EDWARD L. RAYMOND 




DWARD L. RAYMOND, cashier of the 
liank of Manhattan, might have been 
either a great newspaper proprietor or 
an attorney, had he followed any hered- 
itary instincts generally snpposed to 
exist. He is the son of Edward E. 
Raymond, one of New York's most prominent attorneys, 
and he is the nephew of Henry Raymond, one of the 
founders of the New York Times. However, the West 
lured him away from any career the East might have had 
in store for him. In 1870 Mr. Raymond became vice- 
president of the State National Bank of Denver. He saw 
that city grow from a population of 30,000 to 150,000. 
During the boom days in Leadville he was in that camp 
and, in fact, has spent the greater part of his life some- 
where near the frontier line. 

Mr. Raymond's experiences gave him an excellent 
knowledge of mining and of the growth of business in- 
terests in mining towns ; consequently, he was glad to ac- 
cept the management of the Manhattan Bank when it was 
offered to him by B. L. Smith, whom Mr. Raymond had 
known in Colorado. This is the only home bank in Man- 
hattan, and it has been popularized by Mr. Raymond. 
He knows how to meet men and how to talk to them. He 
understands Nevada business conditions probably as well 
as does any man in the state, and his business judgment 
is sane and sound. 

Mr. Raymond likes Manhattan, and Manhattan likes 
Mr. Raymond. He thinks it is a good camp and a good 
place to live. He has proved this by taking his family 
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ROUND MOUNTAIN 




ONE of the new bonanza mining camps 
of Nevada has a more remarkable or 
unique history than that of Round 
Mountain. No other camp in Nevada is 
able to duplicate the following wonder- 
ful list of achievements on which it 
bases its claim of being the biggest-feeling camp on earth. 
First.— The mines of Round Mountain havd been 
proven and developed without the aid of any outside 
capital. From the time the first shovelful of dirt was 
turned, the gold taken out has been more than sufficient 
to carry on the work. 

Second. — Before the camp was a year old there were 
two mills at work turning out approximately $30,000.00 
worth of gold bullion per month. 

Third.— The first extensive placer fields of Nevada 
were discovered on and around Round Mountain. The 
discoverer took out $40,000.00 worth of gold in six weeks. 
The dry-wash, hydraulic and sluicing methods of extract- 
ing the ore are all successfully used. 

Fourth.— Properties giving promise of developing into 
the greatest of the world's tungsten mines have been dis- 
covered in the district. This alone, without an ounce of 
gold, will make Round Mountain famous the world over. 
All of this, be it observed, before the camp had cele- 
brated its first birthday. It is the purpose of this article 
to briefly relate what this young giant has done since its 
first anniversary, and the tremendous projects which it 
proposes to undertake, many of which are already under 
way. 

Gold was first discovered here on Alarch 2nd, 1906. bv 



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two prospectors, "'Slim" [Morgan and L. R. Scott, on the 
Sunnyside claims. 

Today the town of Round Mountain stands alone as 
"the town that had no boom.'"' It has a school, a public 
library, a bank, a hotel, a mining stock exchange and the 
usual complement of mercantile houses, stores and broker- 
age and business offices. The Round Mountain Nugget. 
a weekly ten-page newspaper, has a plant second to none 
in the state, which is owned by Henry J. Bartlett. the 
editor. 

In point of development three mines stand pre-eminent 
at this writing. They are the Sunnyside, Fairview and 
the Sphinx, each having two thousand or more linear feet 
to its credit. All three of them are gold-producers, the 
first two mentioned having their own mills now in opera- 
tion, while the Sphinx has a Huntington in course of 
construction. These two mills are crushing out $80,000 
monthly, and it is but a matter of a short time before it 
will be necessary to increase their daily output in order 
to keep pace with the constantly increasing ore tonnage 
which these mines are yielding. 

Other properties in the district which are actively en- 
gaged in "mine making" are the Homestake, Antelope, 
Mohawk, Blue Jacket, Cahill, Round Mountain Annex, 
Great Western, Comstock. Daisy, Combination. Red Top, 
Royal Hawaiian, Spink Extension and Nevada Gold Trail. 

From both the Daisy and the Antelope properties have 
come some of the most beautiful specimens of flower and 
wire gold that have ever been exhibited. Leases have been 
let on both of these company's holdings and the leasers 
bid fair to become rich men long before the expiration 
of their contracts. Several have already made their stake 
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leasers were never better than they are at Round Moun- 
tain. A large area combined with rich free milling ore, 
make the conditions ideal for men who are seeking leasing 
propositions. 

But it is not only in hard rock mining that this camp 
has made and is making its wonderful record. As stated 
in the beginning of this sketch, Round Mountain has 
placed before the mining world the placer possibilities of 
Nevada in a serious light. It is probably safe to say 
that up to the time the Round Mountain placer grounds 
were discovered, not one prospector in ten gave placer 
fields in Nevada a thought. Nowadays every intervening 
foot of space over which the prospector travels is fraught 
with golden possibilities, and instead of the long, weari- 
some and uninteresting hikes from range to range, every 
dry channel, basin or flat may "look good" enough for a 
halt and a try-out at panning. 

Thomas Wilson was the discoverer of the Round Moun- 
tain placer fields, and from the small dry-wash machine 
worked by two men, has been evolved the tremendous sur- 
face mining undertakings of the Round Mountain Hy- 
draulic Mining Company. In a desert country the lack 
of water seemed a well-nigh insurmountable obstacle to 
hope for the installation of hydraulic and sluicing meth- 
ods, but by means of great pipes, conduits have been laid 
which carry the water from a distance of seven miles. 

It IS this copious water supply, and the proximity of 
well-timbered hills which have supplied the fuel enabling 
Round Mountain to make the great strides that it has. 

Of an area of over thirty square miles which comprise 
this district, less than two square miles have been system- 
atically and thoroughly prospected for i^lacer ground. 
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lies the famous Round ^Mountain Monster Gold ^Mining 
Company, on whose property the original first discovery 
of tungsten was made during February of 1907. It was 
while prospecting for gold that the general manager of 
the company, J. C. Popper, found the quartz stringers 
which carried this valuable mineral. The ground has 
since developed larger surface showings of that metal than 
are at present known to exist anywhere in America. 

Tungsten is not a newly discovered metal, but the dis- 
covery of a myriad uses for it have increased its value 
and made it as much sought for as gold. Based on assay 
leturns, the tungstic acid of the Round Mountain dis- 
trict give higher values than are obtained from any of 
the mines of Australia, England, Germany or the United 
States. 

Besides its story of gold and tungsten, Round Moun- 
tain has its tale of silver, and no conception of fiction is 
woven about with more romance. 

In the midst of the solitary grandeur of Jefiferson can- 
yon, practically alone, Charles Harrison and Charles Kan- 
rohat have lived since the early seventies without the ex- 
change of a friendly word of greeting. As young men 
they came into Nevada during the excitement of the silver 
days, and each of them staked ofif a group of claims on 
opposite sides of Jefiferson Canyon, and set to work to 
open them up. Both of them had good properties, and 
they prospered. Thousands of dollars were taken out 
of the ground until the decline in silver occurred, and 
then it was found that with the anticjuated methods of 
mining existing in those days it was no longer profitable 
to mine for silver. Then it was that these two men were 
left alone. Of all the teeming camp that had grown up 
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and the hope of an uhimate awakening- and they stayed 
on. 

It! was at this time that a shght misunderstanding 
estranged the two men, and in the years of their loneU- 
ness the bitterness grew so that even in this new era of 
gold and cheap mining methods, when once again they 
have come into their own and each has sold his mine, the 
mines which each had worked alone and unaided through 
the long years between the silver days and the discovery 
of Round Mountain, when each has come into a compe- 
tence which will permit of his living in affluence the re- 
mainder of his days, the bitterness still rankles, even 
though the cause of the bitterness may have become for- 
gotten through the lapse of years. The burning desert 
sears deep. 

The old Charles mine which was the property of Harri- 
son, was purchased by a syndicate of men who formed 
the Round Mountain Allegany Mining Company. 

On the Kanrohat property sixty thousand dollars worth 
of work has been done, consisting of a mile of tunnels and 
shafts. A million tons of ore are in sight. This ore is 
principally of free milling character, about two-thirds sil- 
ver and one-third gold. 

Their dream of the rejuvenation of the old Jefferson 
district has at last been realized. The renaissance of this 
canyon after its Rip Van Winklian slumber of more than 
a quarter of a century is but one instance of where famous 
old silver mines have received their quickening in the 
adoption of modern methods of handling and milling ore. 

That the Round Mountain district has a great future is 
conceded by all who have studied its possibilities, and the 
camp has not as yet attained to the dignity of having 
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JOHN F. STEBBINS 




ATTLEMAN, sheepman, ranchman, 
miner, if ever there was a typical son of 
Nevada, he must be John F. Stebbins of 
Round Mountain. His is the story of 
years of hard work on the desert which 
at last has broug^ht him wealth. His 
childhood and early youth were spent in Austin, where 
he was born in 1868. Jefferson Canyon, a dead min- 
ing camp that had been worked in the early seventies, 
attracted his attention, and with F. W. Dixon he 
went into the cattle business there seventeen years ago. 
For sixteen years he lived within four miles of the present 
camp of Round Mountain and tramped and rode all over 
that section without dreaming of the wealth that lay be- 
low. 

In 1891 Mr. Stebbins located placer claims in JeflFerson 
Canyon. In 1901 he discovered the Golden Hope mine in 
the canyon and discovered Round ]\Iountain by finding 
gold on the Saddleback claim, now known as Round 
Mountain Extension. The following year he and Mr. 
Dixon ran a tunnel 100 feet on Mariposa, and December 
I bonded the claims to Louis D. Gordon, who worked 
them for an eastern company. On February 20. 1905. 
Stebbins and Dixon located the Sunnyside claims for Gor- 
don, and on March 3 free gold was discovered on these 
claims by E. R. Scott and Luther Morgan. On ]\Iarch 
16 Stebbins and Dixon sold the claims to Loftus & Davis. 
who now own the famous mine. Mrs. Stebbins her- 
self, in 1905 located the Antelope Claim, which she sold 
to C. C. Eoak. Stebbins and his partner owned nearly 






all the water rig^hts in the district, which they recently sold 
to the Round Mountain Daisy Mining Company. 

Mr. Stebbins married Lena M. Rogers, a true Nevada 
girl, and Mr. Dixon married a sister of Mr. Stebbins. 
Both men were cowboys in the early days and know Ne- 
vada as do few others. Their partnership is based on 
absolute faith in each other. They have worked together 
for years, have never had any written agreement, not 
even the scratch of a pen, and not once in all the years 
has a disagreement occurred to mar their happy relations. 

When you write the story of one partner you write the 
story of the other, for closer than brothers have they 
been. In Jefferson canyon they have lived for so many 
years with almost no companions but the members of their 
two families and without any amusement except that 
which they could manufacture for themselves. 

Mrs. Stebbins knows enough about mining to make the 
average city-bred woman open her eyes in wonder, and 
from her own locations she has made a large sum of 
money. Since fortune has come to the two families they 
are the same simple folk as before, content to live a happy, 
wholesome life. 



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EA'ADA has no more loyal son than 
Henry J. Bartlett, and Round Mountain 
owes more to the personal efforts of this 
one man than to any other influence 
which has gone to make this district 
known to and appreciated by the outside 
world. Less than one month after the discovery of gold 
in the Round Mountain District, Henry Bartlett founded, 
and housed, the plant of the Round Mountain Nugget, a 
virile and up-to-date eight-page weekly newspaper. His 
confidence in the coming greatness of the district may 
be inferred from the fact that $io,ocx) was put into the 
venture when less than a dozen tent houses and not over 
fifty persons, comprised the sum total of the community. 
The story of Round ]»kIountain is the story of Mr. Bart- 
lett. They have grown and prospered hand in hand, 
and with "The Nugget" Bartlett has shown the way. 
His mind it was which conceived the Round Mountain 
Hydraulic Mining Company, and his energy which 
brought to fruition the possibility of this gigantic scheme 
of placer mining with water. To his indefatig- 
able eft'ort is due the fact that the Daisy Mining Com- 
pany came into possession of all of the valuable water 
rights of the district, which in turn is supplying the city 
and surrounding mines. 

There are but few propositions in the district in which 
if he is not an officer, director, or the promoter, he is a 
share-holder. 

He has the distinction of being the first newspaperman 
in the State to travel about in his own automobile, which 
is christened the "Nugget Flyer," and Bartlett and his 
"Flyer" are known in all of the great Nevada camps. 



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CHESTER O. OLIVE 




HERE is a man in Round Mountain 
who has more than a passing regard 
for "hunches" and perhaps it is with 
good reason. Just before the earth- 
quake in San Francisco, Chester O. 
Ohve, who had business interests 
there at that time, got a "hunch" that he wanted to go 
away. He did not know just why, but he finally deter- 
mined that it must be the gold fever and three days be- 
fore the terrible catastrophe, which left the city a mass 
of blackened ruins, he sold everything he had and started 
for the gold fields of Nevada. That was just at the be- 
ginning of things in Round Mountain and there he de- 
termined to pitch his tent. He did not know much about 
mining, but he knew a little about the needs of a miner 
and started a small store. A few months later he be- 
came postmaster and it was not very long before he started 
the Round Mountain Banking corporation. 

At present there is not very much in Round Mountain 
which this young man is not. Ask for the postmaster and 
some one will point to Mr. Olive ; ask for the banker and 
it is Mr. Olive you will be shown ; ask for the secretary 
and treasurer of the Round Mountain Hydraulic Company 
and again Mr. Olive is indicated. 

All his "hunches" seem to have been good ones. He 
was one of the purchasers of the famous Charles Mine 
in Jefferson Canyon, which was shut down as a result of 
"the crime of '73." With the changed conditions of today 
the present owners expect to make a great thing of the 
mine. Though a young man. Mr. Olive is one of the most 
substantial citizens of the camp. 







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THOMAS WILSON 

HOMAS WILSON, discoverer of the 
rich placer diggings at Round Moun- 
tain, has made a fortune by the dry- 
washing process. Hence his Nevada 
sobriquet, "Dry Wash" Wilson. To 
him is due the credit for launching one 
of the greatest industries in that part of the state, for on 
October lo of this year water was turned into the pipes 
of the Round Mountain Hydraulic Mining Company, and 
the work of taking out the riches was begun on a large 
scale. As the discoverer of the rich diggings Mr. Wilson 
in three months took out $50,000 and convinced his as- 
sociates that a great hydraulic plant only was needed to 
make the workings a producer of millions. 

Mr. Wilson made his discovery while prospecting in 
the Round Mountain District in the spring of 1906. 
Early in the summer he installed two small hand dry 
washing m.achines. This was on the property of the 
Round Mountain Mining Company and Round Mountain 
Combination Mining Company, where he secured leases, 
also making a number of valuable locations adjoining 
these properties. With Henry Bartlett, Captain Thatcher 
and Loftus & Davis as associates he promoted the Round 
Mountain Hydraulic Mining Company, whose plant now 
is in operation and which, it is expected, will yield 
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GENERATION passes away and an- 
other comes ; the customs, the hopes, 
the joys and even the sorrows of an 
age die, and new ambitions, new cus- 
toms, new hopes, new joys and in- 
evitably new sorrows, replace them. 
Northern Nevada is waving a last farewell to one gen- 
eration and extending a welcoming hand to another. The 
discovery of the goldfields of the southern part of the 
State has brought new life, new impetus and a vast land 
of opportunities. 

Ten years ago, if a prophet had chanced to visit the 
fireplace of some stock-raiser or rancher far out of the 
beaten path of civilization and had predicted that within 
a very few moons men would bring from barren lands 
riches enough to bestow power and plenty to every man 
in Nevada, the stock-raiser or rancher would have 
laughed, and would have gone quietly on tending his cows 
or following his plough. 

When the men of the north said farewell to the Com- 
stock days they thought they were through with mining 
in Nevada for all time and settled down to make the 
apparently fruitless soil bring forth their support. They 
are grand old men ; they have fought a grand fight, year 
in and year out, with little hope of great riches ahead, 
their only ambition to glean what they could from the soil. 
They did not suspect that new men would come into the 
State, open new treasure stores and bring wealth to those 
who had seen her through her worst days. 

With Jim Butler's discovery of Tonopah — somehow 
everything seems to date from that discovery — the stock- 






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raiser of the north was forced to open wide his eyes, and 
he has kept them open ever since. So great has been the 
effect producd by the wealth dug from the southern 
mines in the last few years that every city, every town, 
every sheep-camp and every ranch has been benefited 
thereby. The man who passed through the speculative 
days of the Comstock and thought the germ of specula- 
tion dead in him forever, found it awake and quicken 
every pulse when the new bonanza stock market came into 
being. He invested his money — the little he had saved 
from his years of toil — and like most of those who came 
in on the crest of the new excitement he reaped a rich 
harvest. 

Reno a few years ago little more than a railroad center 
where travelers stopped over night or for a meal between 
trains, is now a city — a real, live city, that has become 
headquarters for a host of men operating in every section 
of the country. The wealth of the southern part of the 
State has built for Reno handsome business blocks, beauti- 
ful homes, and various gigantic enterprises which go to 
make of a town a city. There is no more ideal place in 
the State than this same bustling little city built on the 
banks of the beautiful Truckee River. 

And the favors have not all been one-sided. The 
northern part of the State has given to the south her 
sons, the best of her young blood, imbued with the mining 
germ bequeathed to them by their fathers and lying dor- 
mant within them until the spark of this new gold set it 
aflame. Sons of old Nevada have done much to develop 
the resources of the new land of promise and fulfillment. 
They have helped to make her mines ; they have helped 
to build her railroads ; they have helped to organize her 
banking institutions ; thev have sent to her doctors. 




merchants 



men 



every line of 



lawyers, brokers 
achievement. 

There are those in old Nevada who are prone to cast 
glances of scorn on the young men of the south ; to call 
them "mushrooms" and "Johnny Come Latelys" and other 
such names, but these men are few. ]Most of the old 
men of the north are just and generous. They realize 
that if southern Nevada owes a debt to northern Nevada, 
northern Nevada likewise owes her new era, her renais- 
sance, to the southern treasure vaults. Some of the men 
of the south are "mushrooms" and "Johnny Come Late- 
lys," but they are none the less true Nevadans. Thev are 
no less men of power, men of courage, men of energy, 
men willing to fight for Nevada and willing to love her 
for all time. Though they are adopted sons, thev are 
loyal sons. They take off their hats to the men w'ho have 
seen the State through her days of poverty and hardship, 
and all thy ask in return is a little recognition for the new 
life they are bringing her. 

The Comstock was great. The mention of her name 
even today thrills every hearer who knows of her glorious 
history. But the Comstock was not all of Nevada, and 
even those who are living in the past awaken from their 
lethargy to listen to the tales of new wealth. !Many of the 
names that are connected with Nevada's history have been 
erased from the earthly roster, and rapidly the last of the 
white-bearded monarchs are going to answer to the roll- 
call in a distant land. This is the "between" stage in the 
northern part of the State. One generation is passing 
away, another is coming. 

When this new mining era is passed — it mav be vears, 
it may be centuries — the stockmen of the north will still 
be driving their herds from one range to another ; the 




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rancher will still be wrestling- with the soil as he has 
wrestled since the days of the first early settlers. The 
day will come, and all indications would advise that it is 
not far distant, when the now barren lands will all be 
under the command of man. and at his behest bring 
forth all that man needs. 

As mining is the salvation of Nevada now, so will agri- 
culture be in some distant day ,and the word "water" will 
tell the story of the great transition. 

And as one generation passes away and another comes 
to take its place, there is honor and praise to the men of 
the north, to the sturdy pioneers who first made Nevada, 
and to themselves and their sons who stand ready to 
succor the State in the every hour of her need. 



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OLONEL T. B. RICKEY has so many 
interests in the State of Nevada that one 
frequently wonders what would ever 
have become of this sagebrush land had 
the Colonel not happened along. With- 
out doubt, Colonel Rickey has done more 
than has any other one man to develop the state. He is 
one of that class of men who does things, a man intended 
for great accomplishments, who hates failure and who 
honors the man or woman who succeeds. 

Born in Ohio, August 23, 1836, he crossed the plains 
to California in 1852, a boy sixteen years of age. He be- 
gan mining in Amador County, but soon turned his at- 
tention to stock raising and took a drove of cattle into 
Antelope Valley, Douglas County, Nev., driving them 
over the hills from California. He did not have any cap- 
ital, and the only assets on which to build a fortune were 
his own youth, energy and ambitions. He prospered in 
the cattle business, and when the miners were taking gold 
from the Comstock he was supplying the beef for the 
camp. Colonel Rickey's youthful ambitions were 
more than realized. He is known as the cattle king of 
Nevada ; has 42,000 acres of land in Antelope, a ranch 
in Alpine County, Cal, and recently sold to Los Angeles 
the largest of the water rights in Owens River Valley. He 
has devoted much time to the study of irrigation and owns 
extensive water rights. Much' arid land has been re- 
claimed by him. Colonel Rickey is president of the State 
Bank and Trust Company of Nevada, the Goldfield Con- 
solidated Water Company, the Homer Wilson Trust 
Company, which includes the old Sullivan Trust Company 







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and other large interests throughout the state. He 
founded a chain of banks through the state and 
erected the largest building in Southern Nevada, an ____ 
mense five-story brick block on the main street of Tono- 
pah, which is the home of the State Bank and Tntst Com- 
pany. He has extensive mining interests in manv dis- 
tricts, and is an owner of the Nevada-California Power 
Company. Colonel Rickey has a handsome residence in 
Carson City, where also is located the home bank of the 
State Bank and Trust Company. His interests keep him 
traveling most of the time. As his accomplishments 
prove, the Colonel is a man of wonderful executive abil- 
ity, untiring energy and keen foresight. He can see into 
the future and has the faculty of recognizing an oppor- 
tunity and seizing it. Colonel Rickey is a staunch Re- 
publican in politics, and although he has been manv times 
offered the nomination for governor he steadfastly de- 
clines to accept any office. 

His success has come from his own efforts entirely. He 
is widely known throughout the western country and in 
the east as well. 

He is in Carson today, Tonopah tomorrow, Goldfield 
the next day, and perhaps speeding east to New York or 
west to San Francisco the day after. His big automobile 
can be seen trailing over the desert at all hours, and its 
owner seems never too tired to work just a little bit more. 
A man with less energy than Colonel Rickey would have 
long ago retired from active business life. Not so with 
Colonel Rickey. He is as active todav as in the earlv 
days of his career, and he has no intention of .soon going 
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N Nevada people have to go ahead to 
keep from being run over, according 
to Samuel Piatt, United States attor- 
ney for that district, and Mr. Piatt fol- 
lows the go-ahead doctrine if there is 
any man in the state that does. A large 
majority of the young men who have been born in Carson 
or other nearby cities, have grown up and gone away to 
seek their fortunes in other fields. A few have stayed 
and have been successful in a remarkable degree. Strik- 
ing among those successes is Sam Piatt. It was on Nov. 
17, 1874, that Joseph Piatt, one of the pioneer merchants 
of Carson City, became the father of a son whom he was 
to see within a few years occupying a position such as few 
men of his age in America could hold. Sam Piatt's boy- 
hood was spent in Carson City and he was graduated from 
Stanford University with the class of '96. The follow- 
ing year he completed his course in law at Columbia Uni- 
versity. He was admitted to the bar at the age of 21 and 
entered politics soon after his return to Nevada. He was 
on the minority side and his fight has been uphill sinc^^ 
the beginning. 

As the republican candidate for district attorney of 
Ormsby County he v/as defeated, but at the next election 
was placed in the legislature and received the republican 
complimentary vote for speaker. The democrats were in 
the majority and the speaker was chosen by them. Mr. 
Piatt was nominated for attorney general on the republi- 
can ticket, but was defeated by Jim Sweeney, now asso- 
ciate justice of the supreme court. The lives of these two 
young men have been strangely interwoven. They were 



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boys together in Carson City and have been fast friends 
through all their political battles. Both were in the legis- 
lature representing opposing parties and during their cam- 
paign for the attorney generalship they went around the 
state throwing compliments at each other. 

After his defeat for the office of attorney general, Mr. 
Piatt was again elected to the legislature and this time he 
was made its speaker. In January, 1906, he was ap- 
pointed by President Roosevelt United States attorney 
for the district of Xevada. 

During these years he also served as assistant secretary 
of state and United States referee in bankruptcy, but his 
private practice increased so much that it was necessary 
for him to give up these duties. 

]\Ir. Piatt made the speech which started George S. 
Nixon's boom for the United States Senate and he also 
made the speech nominating James A. Yerrington for 
congress on the republican ticket in 1905, after first de- 
clining the nomination himself. He has stumped the state 
several times in the interest of the republican party and 
is known as a fighter for the ideals in which he believes. 

In the legal world he has gained a name as well as in 
the realm of politics. In his private practice he repre- 
sents some of the most prominent men and the largest 
corporations of the state. 

A man of remarkable versatility is this young lawyer- 
politician for he adds to his other accomplishments a 
knowledge of music and love of it which has resulted in 
bringing much pleasure to his associates. He is a bachelor 
and has had little time for cupid's game, but is popular 
with men and women alike, wherever he goes. 







ROM cowboy to bank president and one 
of the foremost men in the state is the 
record of Oscar J. Smith, a record that 
he modestly says is nothing. There is 
in Nevada probably no man who knows 
more of mining, stock raising and bank- 
ing conditions than Mr. Smith. He has had an interest- 
ing career. Rhode Island is his native state, and it wel- 
comed him in 1859. He went to school in Massachusetts, 
and in some manner he contracted the "western fever." 
He arrived in Colorado in 1880, and for the next three 
years worked as miner and as a cowboy on the big ranges. 
Then he began a remarkable rise. Mr. Smith became con- 
nected with a smelter in 1884 and in six years he worked 
up from the position of roustabout through the lead and 
silver refineries to a position as assayer, and later became a 
traveling ore buyer. In 1890 he engaged in the business 
of buying and selling ores for himself on the west coast 
of Mexico, at Mazatlan and later at other places. 

Mr. Smith went to Reno in 1896, and not contented with 
his achievements 10 date, was admitted to the bar, was 
elected president of the Eureka County Bank in 1898, and 
a year later became identified with Mr. Griffin and his 
brother, Bert L. Smith, in the Eureka Live Stock Com- 
pany. From 1905 Mr. Smith has devoted considerable of 
his attention to banking, having been chosen president of 
the First National Bank of Elko in 1905, -and in the same 
year president of the Southern Nevada Banking Com- 
pany, now the First National Bank of Rhyolite. In 1906 
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All Mr. Smith's time is not devoted to personal inter- 
ests. He is a prominent Republican and was a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 
1900. In 1904 he was elected long-term regent of the 
University of Nevada, and this ofhce he still holds. He was 
the Republican choice for Congress in the last election. 

Mr. Smith is a big, handsome man. a natural leader of 
men, but at the same time gentle mannered and courteous, 
as is always the true Westerner. 

With the personality of the true Western man, and the 
determination to make good in everything he attempts, 
it is little wonder that success has beamed upon him so 
graciously. His wife is a beautiful and charming woman, 
and their home in Reno is the scene of much delightful 
entertaining. Whether it is the banker, the lawyer, the 
stockman, the politician or the host whom one appeals to 
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W. R. RIDGE 




R. RIDGE, "Roy" Ridge, mining oper- 
ator, heavily interested where prospects 
are the brightest, ahnost went to Alaska 
instead of to Nevada, but circumstances 
interfered. For this he is probably 
glad, and Nevada is not at all sorry. 
He is the type of a man that is willing to take a chance 
and match his wits and judgment against the desert. He 
was born in Kansas in 1876, and just twenty years later 
he came west, intending to go on to the Klondyke. But 
he failed to get any farther than California, where he 
soon found work in Former Governor Markham's mines 
in Hedges, as millman. He also obtained some valuable 
experience in the mines of Sierra County and later in 
Senator Kearn's famous Silver King Mine. 

Now comes a story of ups and downs in Nevada : Mr. 
Ridge went to Tonopah and worked as foreman in the 
Montana-Tonopah Mine, then entered the brokerage busi- 
ness in Tonopah. He was one of the first dozen or so 
men to get in ahead of the rush to Goldfield, going there 
to prospect. He helped measure the Jumbo and FlorenC'? 
claims and a year later secured a lease on the Jumbo with 
Uri Curtis, which made history for the camp under the 
name of the Ridge-Curtis Lease. They took out $300,ck)0 
in ninety days. Mr. Ridge located thirty claims in the 
heart of Goldfield in 1903, but sustained an accident to his 
finger. Blood poisoning developed and he was forced to 
go out of the desert for medical treatment. Had he been 
able to stay with his claims they would have brought him 
a fortune. 

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1906, ^Ir. Rulgc and P. H. McLaughlin, with whom he 
was associated, decided to see what the new field offered. 
The two were playing pool in the ]\Iontezuma Club at the 
time. "Fll match you." said one, "to see which goes to 
look over the prospect." They matched, and the lot fell 
to Mr. Ridge. He went, and the first day in Fairview he 
selected the ground which he purchased two weeks later 
from Joe Davis, a Tonopah prospector. It is known as 
the Dromedary Hump Mine, named from the shape of the 
hills. It took Mr. Ridge two weeks to find the owner of 
the propertv, but it is now one of the most promising in 
the district. 

Mr. Ridge's home and office are in Reno, but his in- 
terests are many throughout the state. He was the lead- 
ing factor in building the telephone and telegraph line into 
Fairview, which connected that camp with the outside 
world. 

Picture a man who has accomplished all this and you 
have a likeness of Mr. Ridge: manly, straightforward, a 
representative of the young mining men who are "mak- 
ing" Nevada. 

Had he been a different stamp of man — one less ener- 
getic and more inclined to rely on the efforts of others. 
Mr. Ridge might be back in Kansas City today instead of 
occupving the prominent place in Nevada history which 
is now his. A member of a family well provided with 
this world's wealth, he might have been content to idle 
away his time and spend the money which others have 
made, but he was not. He wanted the pride and joy of 
feeling that if success and fortune came to him it should 
not be of the ready-made kind, but of his own fashioning 
and built upon hard work. When he arrived in Nevada 
he brought little more than the average prospector, but 
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J. BURRO 

IIUN the liislorv of Nevada is made and 
written ; when (lie honor roll of the he- 
roes of [hv i)iek and ])an is called, there 
IS one name that nuist not be missini;- — 
that of I. MuiTo. Always in the fore- 
front, never falterin.^- nnder heavv 
loads of responsihilily, this maker of Nevada npon whom 
the searchli-ht is hwv Im-ned for the first time, stands 
miahashed, ihon-h mofjcsi. with those to whom this -reat 
niinino- anuUvy owes its discovery and developmentr 

l''"rn of hnmhir though honest ])arents— Mr. and Mrs. 
j. r.urro— (he snhjcvl of this sketch claims Anv County, 
Nevada, as his home, j-arly in life he he-an to display ^ 
those (pialilies which later were to hrino- him prominently 
Me had few educational opportunities 
except (hose offered in his own home nnder the tutorship 
of his mother. Hut he was (|uick 1,, learn, an.l inheriting 
sturdy characteristics from his parents, who were pio- 
neers, he .soon entered actively into prospecting and 
freiohting business. His .strength and endm-ance'' were 
such that almost invariably he bore all the burdens while 
his p;irtners walked lightlv bv his side. 

•Ml-. I'.urro has been instrumental in discovering and 
locatin- .souie of the best projierties in the State". He 
penetrates the rem<.tc districts bringiug back .samples for 
assaying and reports of wealth that startle the world. 

While uot particularlv han.lsomc, .Mr. T.urro has an 
honest, genial, expression that inspires confidence. He is 
deeply interested in the State's development, and 





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Certificate of Assay of Mr. Nevada Man 



SAMPLE 


ORE 


POUNDS 


oz. 


VALUE 




Manliness - 


36 


8 


$150,000 




Honesty 


34 


6 


375,000 




Optimism - 


12 


12 


45,250 




Loyalty - - 


22 


10 


33,700 




Patience 


9 


9 


1,050 


175 lbs of 
pay dirt 


Boost - - - 
Knock - - - 


26 


1 


93,500 












Luck - - - 


13 


2 


17,300 




CH,0 - - 




1 












Good Fellow- 
ship - - 


9 


11 


19,200 




Pure Gold - 


10 


4 


26,000 


Totals 


Nevada Man 


175 L 


bs. 


$761,000 



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